Captain Takes Job In East Hartford
Moving On To Be A Deputy Chief
MANCHESTER — Capt. Christopher Davis, the longtime voice of the police department, is leaving to take a deputy chief ’s position in neighboring East Hartford.
Davis, 46, the department’s public information officer for 14 years, said Friday that he is to start his new job on Sept. 24.
The Ledyard native started as a patrol officer in Manchester in 1994 after working as an auxiliary police officer in Groton.
Davis rose through the ranks in patrol and the detective bureau, serving on a warrant squad that tracked down fugitives and as head of the regional narcotics task force. As a patrol sergeant, he supervised the field training officer program and honor guard. In 2004, he began serving as public information officer and also was part of the statewide Home Invasion Task Force in 2007.
Notable cases during Davis’s tenure included the massacre at Hartford Distributors in 2010, when eight people were shot dead and the killer committed suicide as police closed in.
A father of four children, Davis also volunteered weekly at the homeless shelter run by Manchester Area Conference of Churches before it closed in 2015. Most recently, he ran monthly community information meetings, talking with citizens about crime trends and crime prevention.
Davis has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Eastern Connecticut State University and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Boston University. He teaches criminal justice courses at ECSU and Manchester Community College.
In East Hartford, Davis said he will supervise professional standards, which includes internal affairs, accreditation and training.