Chief Promotes Five Officers At Ceremony

Three New Lieutenants, Sergeant, Agent Named As Part Of Command Staff

GLASTONBURY — When it comes to running a police department, Glastonbury Police Chief Marshall Porter has three mantras for officers: “provide polite, professional service”; “no job is beneath us”; and “every problem is ours to solve.”

To make sure those orders are carried out, Porter has selected a new department command staff. Corey Davis, Kevin Troy and Francis Perrone were recently selected as lieutenants, Anthony Pagliughi III as a sergeant and Kenneth Keeney as an agent.

The officers received their promotions during a ceremony at the Riverfront Community Center this week.

Porter said promoting supervisors is “one of the most important things a police chief can do.” He said his command staff now has to “think and act more globally.”

“Command staff are supervisors a chief relies on to provide leadership and guidance and direction and support for the entire agency. We operate as a team making decision as one to promote the best interests of the department and community as a whole,” Porter said.

Town Manager Richard J. Johnson noted the five officers have a combined 50 years of experience in the department. Johnson said he expects the new leaders to “continue the excellence of the department.”

“That’s something we all know must be done day-to-day, week in and week out,” he said. “We feel very confident they will meet and exceed — as they have throughout their career — all those expectations.”

Here’s a look at each newly promoted officer and which unit they will be leading:

Davis will be the investigations commander, responsible for the investigations division and youth unit and assigned to the Connecticut Center for Digital Investigations, a regional computer crimes unit.

Davis started his career with the department in 2001 and has worked in various positions within the patrol area and the investigations division of the East Central Narcotics Task Force. Davis’ most recent position was a supervisor of Connecticut Center for Digital Investigations. He has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Westfield State University in Massachusetts.

Troy will be assigned to patrol, which includes the patrol division, traffic division, field training and court operations. He started his career with the department in 2005 and has worked in the patrol division. He is now assigned to the investigations division.

Troy earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Norwich University and is pursuing a master’s degree in public administration, with a concentration in criminal justice, from Westfield State. Troy served in the Marine Corps, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Iraq and Bosnia during two tours of deployment.

Perrone, a retired sergeant from the Hartford Police Department, will also be assigned to patrol.

Perrone , who was a 20-year Hartford veteran, started his career with the Glastonbury in 2015. Perrone holds an associate’s degree in criminal justice from Middlesex Community College.

Pagliughi will be assigned to the patrol division as shift commander. He started his career with the department in 2013 and has held positions in the traffic and patrol divisions, as well as as an agent in the patrol division since 2014.

Pagliughi has served as a motorcycle officer and an accident motor vehicle reconstructionist, and has played an “integral role in spreading the department’s community policing initiative.” Pagliughi is working toward a degree in business and accounting from Manchester Community College.

Porter said patrol line supervisors are the “most critical and important” parts of a department.

“Patrol is the backbone of any department and patrol supervisors are on the front line. We have a young department with many new officers. … They are in a terrific position to help develop and mold officers,” he said.

Keeney will be assigned to the patrol division. He began his career with the department in 2013 and has been a school resource officer at Glastonbury High School. He served as deputy sheriff in Hernando County, FL from 2000 to 2013.

He is pursuing an associate degree in criminology from Middlesex Community College. Porter said Keeney’s family heritage “is well rooted in the community and he always had the desire to protect and serve the citizens of Glastonbury.”