With the new hires, the East Hartford Police Department now has 125 officers among its ranks, according to Public Information Officer Marc Caruso. Stephen Underwood can be reached at sunderwood ...

While police department ranks are growing, the number of teenagers who shadow officers to learn about law enforcement is shrinking. The decline in Police Explorers, once a model program for other C… ...

Nine youths, who range in age from 16 to 20, from the Norwalk Police Department's Police Explorers program received training from Connecticut police officers at the Cadet Police Academy at the ...