Framingham State Police Awarded Certification [Poll]

Press Release from Framingham State University Police Chief Brad Medeiros:

"It is with great distinction that I announce that the Police Department will be awarded certification from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission on Jan. 26 at a ceremony in Andover.

"Achieving certification from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission is considered a very significant accomplishment and is a recognition that is highly regarded by the law enforcement community."

Medeiros told the Gatepost last month, the student-run campus newspaper, he hoped once the department is accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission, President Timothy Flanagan and the University Board of Trustees will revisit the issue of whether to arm campus police.

“If a police officer is wearing a badge, has the powers of arrest, has the power to take somebody’s civil rights away and detain them, they should be armed,” Medeiros told the Gatepost. He added that should there be an active shooter on campus, his department would be 100 percent reliant on Framingham or State police departments. Such incidents have happened at college campuses in recent years, most recently yesterday at Virginia Tech. If his officers were armed, he said, the threat could be immediately addressed.