GREENFIELD, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — Greenfield police chief Todd Dodge announced four new hires at the City Council meeting Wednesday.
One full time and one part time employees have been hired in dispatch, the part time employee being a recent graduate of Smith Vocational where she was enrolled in a new public safety program and gained two certificates needed for the position, saving the department and city valuable time and money in training.
Two experienced hires who qualify for the $10,000 sign-on bonus have also been made for the police department, Zoey Smith and Robert Johnson, both of which came to speak at the meeting. Smith has been working in EMS and public health for the past two decades, spending ten years as the chief of South County EMS and serving as a police officer in Sunderland for seventeen years.
Johnson started working in the department this past week. He enrolled in the US Army in 2014, where he later served as a medic and in 2019 attended the police academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. Johnson has most recently worked on the Springfield College police force and became an instructor in various areas as well as a field training officer.