With practically ¾ of all members casting a vote, the president of the State Police union has been changed.
The State Police Association of Massachusetts, or SPAM, Election Committee reported on the union’s public-facing communications web site that Brian Williams, a member of the certification unit of the State Police Standards and Training division, had received election because the affiliation’s president. He will change Patrick McNamara, who had served as president for 2 years.
A complete of 1,540 votes had been forged out of the eligible pool of two,078, representing a 74% turnout by Association members, in line with the outcomes web page. Williams earned 764 votes to McNamara’s 650. Peter Levesque got here in third with 112 votes.
SPAM Vice President Luke Bonin saved his seat with 1,107 votes to challenger Seth Peterson’s 388. Secretary Matthew Kane ran unopposed so saved his seat. Conversely, Treasurer Christopher Donahue, with 575 votes, misplaced his seat to challenger Brendan Murphy’s 934 votes.
Williams, in a letter to the union’s members on why he was working for president, acknowledged that “The morale in our Department and our Association is in a steady decline. Our professional
relationships have suffered, and the Department continuously violates our contractual rights.”
“We have fallen for the “free lunch and longer recess” marketing campaign too many occasions, it’s time to elect representatives who’re going to symbolize the pursuits of the Association relatively than their very own,” he added.
McNamara, in his personal letter, stated that over the 2 years he has served as president, the affiliation “has met the challenges of our times.”
“We weathered the storm and came out even stronger. We were able to settle a contentious contract with retroactive pay, raise our detail rate, update contractual language such as bereavement leave and family and medical leave, create detainee observation protocols, etc.,” he wrote, highlighting a latest contract settlement that supplied a greater than 8% value of dwelling adjustment.
Both letters highlighted a deliberate struggle for extra training incentive for the affiliation’s members.
McNamara, in line with his letter, was assigned to the State Police’s Norwell barracks, had served on the MSP Special Tactics and Operations Team (STOP), and had served as an MSP detective in Plymouth county. Prior to becoming a member of the State Police, he was a Plymouth Police officer, a commissioned officer within the state Army National Guard and had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Army’s one hundred and first Airborne Division. He served because the union’s vice chairman from 2020 to 2022.
Williams, in line with his letter, spent a decade within the MSP’s Division of Field Services earlier than transferring to the Division of Investigative Services as a member of the Firearms Identification Section earlier than lastly transferring to his present submit. He served as SPAM Barracks Representative in any respect his assignments apart from one and had beforehand been a member of the chief board. The former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran wrote that he’s on monitor to receiving his regulation diploma from Massachusetts School of Law this month.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”