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“Community Policing” that our department’s motto. I carried that into Ohio and
Rochester’s Police Chief Assumes Command then here into Massachusetts as well.”
Born in Schenectady, New York, just outside of
By Kenneth J. Souza
Albany, Chief Przybylek first entered law enforcement in
Upon first meeting Rochester’s newly-appointed
1967 when he joined the New York State Police force. He
Police Chief William C. Przybylek, one is struck by how
worked as a trooper through 1976, when he was selected
gregarious and personable a man he is. Straightforward
to become Police Chief in the Town of Glenville, NY,
and articulate, he doesn’t waste time in getting right to
nestled between Schenectady and Saratoga.
the point and is more than willing to make an extra effort
“When I first went to Glenville, they only had
to avail himself to community members. Indeed, Chief
seven or eight officers, they didn’t have any dispatch
Przybylek’s career motto, which is prominently printed
function — that was contracted out at the time,” he said.
on his business card right next to the Rochester town seal,
“Eventually, over a period of time, the number of officers
is: “Dedicated to Community Service.”
increased to perhaps 20 or 21. The rest of the staff was all
And with Chief Przybylek, you immediately
civilian employees, I was the first (police) chief in New
sense it isn’t just a catch-phrase — it’s a matter of personal
York state to civilianize dispatchers.”
conviction.
After working in Glenville for 16 years — during
“I always practiced community policing (even)
which time Chief Przybylek oversaw the building of a
before it had a name, because I recognized from being a
new police station there in 1985 — he “retired” under the
city kid that everyone had relied upon our local beat cop
New York system which, according to him, offered
in my neighborhood,” Chief Przybylek said. “I
“meager pensions which require you to go back to work
recognized after becoming a police officer that it was
and do something else.” Retaining his interest in law
advantageous to work closely with people and other
enforcement, he applied for and was offered the position
agencies to try and solve problems. That’s when I first
of Police Chief in West Carollton, Ohio, a city located in
adopted what I use as my personal motto ... and we made
the Dayton metro area in the southwestern part of the
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“I became a city chief for the first time in my
career ... (with) a population of about 14,000 or 15,000
people,” he said. “It had a lot of policing challenges that I
didn’t face when I was located in a suburban town. I
worked there for three years ... worked for a great city
On the cover: Newly-appointed Rochester Police Chief William
C. Przybylek took over command from former Chief Walter
Denham on January 1, 2001. Chief Przybylek looks forward to
the many challenges in the town’s future, including the opening
of a new Police/Communications Building now under
construction, set to be completed June 1. (Photo by Kenneth J.
Souza).
In This Issue
The answer to last week’s trivia question is Rosyn,
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Washington was the town where many of the location
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shots for the television program Northern Exposure was
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filmed. As you can see from the photo above, if we had
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shown you the entire landmark we would have been
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giving you too big of a hint.
This week’s Cabin Fever Trivia Contest question Marion Selectmen’s Meeting..................18
is: Name any three characters or actors/actresses that Mattapoisett Selectmen’s Meeting........12
appeared as regulars on Northern Exposure. Movies & Entertainment.........................36
Place your answer on a post card and mail it to: Police Log...................................................42
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MA 02739, or drop it by our office at 55 County Road,
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twelve-hour drive or difficult flight. Reluctantly, I tried to
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The need to be closer to his family brought him to
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Police Chief on February 1, 1995 ... “three years to the
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“I worked in Mashpee for five and a half years,”
Chief Przybylek said. “I think I accomplished everything
held in Las Vegas
that the board had set out for me when I started. I stepped
up a little bit more in size ... moved from an urban
policing environment to more of a rural environment —
Mashpee is more rural among the Cape towns. I enjoyed
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Then, as fate would have it, Chief Przybylek was
with our unique clientele in called in September of last year to come in and “hold the
fort” in Rochester as Interim Police Chief when former
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After advertising the position and conducting an
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until he started working here and got to know the town
and its residents.
“I spent the first five to six weeks really looking
over the community and considering the staff I had met,
and I was really impressed in every area,” he said. “I felt
everywhere I turned, I was dealing with good, friendly,
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motivated, honest folks. That really influenced me to
become an applicant for the position.”
Seeing immediate parallels between Rochester
and Glenville, where he first began his career as a law
enforcement administrator some 25 years ago, Chief
Przybylek said he liked the fact that Rochester was a
small community with plenty of potential growth ahead,
and he welcomed the chance to, once again, help mold
and shape a growing Police Department.
“When I joined Glenville the department was
small, (and) I had the opportunity to build the
department from the ground up,” he said. “I felt that I
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had really left my fingerprints on the organization in the
respect that I made some meaningful contributions. Not
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just in the hiring of the people that were there, but in the
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change in the department to help it to grow as the town
continues to grow and probably make a worthwhile
contribution to the department, particularly in the areas of
the new building.”
Currently residing in Yarmouthport with his wife
and two youngest sons, Chief Przybylek commutes to and
from Rochester in a vehicle provided by the town but he
plans to make the move closer — certainly to “this side of
the bridge” — within a year, both to be closer to his family
and to make himself more readily available to the
Rochester department.
“At first, it didn’t seem to be a problem, but as
time wore on, I got kind of tired of driving that distance,”
he said. “I don’t like to be separated from my family ...
and I think (the town) felt it was more important for me to
be closer to work. So we agreed that I’m going to make
every effort to get over here ... within the next year. We’re
trying to do a well-thought-out move into the area.”
With the construction of a new Police/
Communications building well underway — a structure
which is right on schedule to be completed by June 1 of
this year — Chief Przybylek will have plenty of
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probably most importantly was how those things could
be developed in relation to the staff here — the elected
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keeping with both tenets, he’s already secured a $15,000
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program in the town center during the summer months —
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a project already in place in both Mattapoisett and Marion
and which he sees as integral to breaking down the
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barriers between residents and police officers.
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number of ‘on duty’ people and use them on bicycle
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patrol,” he stressed. “That would not be effective, because
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through the grant, we get additional funds to pay people
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to be there on their ‘off duty’ time. The bicycles, of course,
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the training. We will be centered around where the new
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as many people as possible. The officers on bicycles don’t
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through Labor Day, weather-permitting. Everywhere it’s
been done, it’s been successful.”
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Another unique approach to community policing
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program, which would require all officers to take time to
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they may never even need a police officer. I think it’s
important that they see us in a lot of modes, they need to
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Chief Przybylek is also planning to work with
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monitoring sign like the ones already in use in
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Mattapoisett and Marion, as a means of educating people
who often disregard the posted speed limits within the
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“The most prevalent complaint in every
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748-0357 traffic problems,” he said. “The typical, traditional
response in the past has been to ... take a police officer and
put him in the neighborhood and sort of take a ‘zero
tolerance’ approach to speeding in the neighborhood. If
you utilize a speed-monitoring trailer effectively, you’re
going to help educate the people in town. And the
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but there’s an education for those who are the observers
to the degree that the police department is interested in
the problem.”
The Historic Probably Chief Przybylek’s biggest challenge is to
get his community-oriented message out to the residents
District Dealer and make himself and his department members more
visible and readily-available to the community at large —
for... something which is always easier said than done. But
Chief Przybylek exudes a certain amount of self-
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— just as he did in his last position as Police Chief in
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Radko Ornaments “The community policing philosophy that we’ll
be using is the most important message to get out into the
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community, not apart from it. The department is here to
serve not just as a reactionary force to an emergency
situation, but more importantly as a proactive force to
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