Crime & Safety
New Canaan to Swear-in Two New Officers
The officers will head to the Connecticut Police Academy soon to begin training.
NEW CANAAN, CT- Police will welcome two more officers to their ranks March 24 at a swearing-in ceremony.
Matthew Blank, 27, of Stamford accepted a position with the department in January and will begin training at the Connecticut Police Academy on April 1. He is scheduled to graduate on Sept. 13.
Blank most recently was employed as an assistant director/stage manager at Saxe Middle School and continues to be an intelligence analyst for the Connecticut National Guard.
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He attended the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, located in New York City as well as at Cochise College, located in Sierra Vista, Arizona. There, he studied intelligence op. studies.
Sebastian Obando, 22, is a Rye Brook, N.Y. resident and was most recently employed at SoulCycle in Rye Brook. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's in criminology.
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Obando was also a Big Brothers, Big Sisters mentor.
He too is scheduled to attend the Connecticut Police Academy and is tentatively scheduled to graduate in September.
The swearing-in ceremony will take at the Lapham Community Center at noon.
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