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 The
Operations Commander is Commander Matthew Reed.
Commander Reed was promoted to the rank of commander
and assigned to command the Operations Division on June 12, 2005.
Commander Reed is a native of Springfield, Massachusetts and
graduated from Technical High School in 1982.
Commander Reed served in the United States Army as a military police
traffic accident investigator at Ft. Hood, Texas from 1983 until 1986.
He
was hired as a South Windsor police officer in 1987 and served in
the patrol section as a patrol officer and supervisor. Commander Reed
served as the department’s youth service officer from 1989-1991
and was responsible for the implementation of the DARE program at the
Timothy Edwards Middle School. After his assignment as youth service officer,
Commander Reed returned to the patrol section. In 1993 he was assigned
to the department’s administrative services section where he was
designated as the department’s public information officer. While
assigned to administrative services, Commander Reed worked as aide to
the Chief of Police researching and writing department policies, conducting
community outreach activities and managing the department’s information
technology structure. Commander Reed served as the manager of the public
information and technology section until his promotion to the rank of
Commander in June, 2005.
As commander of the Operations Division, Commander Reed
is responsible for the officers on patrol, the criminal investigations
unit, the department school resource officer program, the police canine
program, the traffic safety enforcement and investigation unit, the community
service officers and the special enforcement unit.
Commander Reed holds an Associate’s Degree in
Criminal Justice from Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT; a
Bachelor’s
Degree in Criminology from Central Connecticut State University in New
Britain, CT and a Juris Doctor from
Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, MA. He
is an adjunct faculty member at Manchester Community College and a
certified police instructor.
Commander Reed lives in South Windsor with his wife and
five children.
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