Mystery Framingham Police Officer Found

Yesterday, during the 119th running of the Boston Marathon, Anusha Mookherjee dropped out after 5 miles.

She tweeted she was shivering and a Framingham Police Officer offered her his jacket and she wanted to thank him.

Framingham Police Lt. Stephen Cronin uncovered who the police officer was this morning.

Retired Framingham Police Officer and former US Marine, currently a part time traffic constable for the police department Joe Besardi was the officer. said Cronin.

“I was bone cold and that officer did not think twice,” Mookherjee told Framingham Patch this morning.

Besardi said he saw the woman shivering along the race course and realized she didn’t have enough layers on to keep her warm.

Cronin said Officer Besardi stated he had a number of layers on himself, including a very old now decommissioned jacket beneath his rain gear, so he took it off and helped her dawn it and she continued on.

“This is seriously amazing. I hope he knows what a difference he made to me yesterday,” Mookherjee told Framingham Patch.

“Besardi lives a fair distance away from Framingham now, is a pretty low-key guy, that doesn’t seek the lime-light and declined any further media attention simply saying she was someone that needed help and that’s why he did it,” said Lt. Cronin.

“Thank you for helping me figure out who he is,” Mookherjee told Framingham Patch.”I’ll be thinking of him when I finish one year.”