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Recruitment
The Recruitment and Training Director is responsible for background investigations. As Training Director, he coordinates training for all police personnel. He is the Department’s Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) representative which links the Department to Federal, State and other agencies and includes monitoring terminal use, enforcing system discipline, and assuring operational procedures are followed. He is the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) representative, coordinating with the Massachusetts State Police Fusion Center reporting accurate statistical information to the Massachusetts State Police Crime Reporting Unit and FBI, for all criminal activity in the City.

Training
The Chelsea Police Department conducts yearly in service training for all sworn members of the Department. The Chelsea Police Department conducts yearly in service training for all sworn members of the Department. The training includes a review of new laws and court decisions that effect how an officer performs his/her job; First Aid and CPR, which all members of the Department are trained in; Use of less lethal weapons refresher such as the Electronic Control Device (Taser) and the bean bag shot gun, when they are permitted to be used, as well as the Department's policies that govern their use; Defensive tactics, which include armed/ unarmed techniques used to make a lawful arrest. Firearms Training The Chelsea Police Departments Firearms instructors, Sergeant Michael Nee and Officer John Gravallese, conduct two firearms classes per year, providing each officer with individual training. The Department contracts a specially designed firearms range to be brought to Chelsea. Each officer works one on one with an instructor during the training. The Officers must be qualified on the Massachusetts Police Training Committee standardized training. Additionally, Chelsea Police Officer's are placed in scenario judgment training, where they make decisions on the use of their firearm.

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