New Britain Police Chief Christopher Chute will present an online presentation on the New Britain Police “use of force” policy.
The event is to be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 4:30pm. It is to be on the New Britain Police Facebook page at facebook.com/newbritainpd/?RF=371945523302378.
The “Town Hall Style” event is to be on, “current New Britain Police Department use of force policy, presented by Chief Chute and Sergeant Mann.”
The event comes days after Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by Atlanta police.
On Wednesday evening, a committee of the New Britain City Council is to hear from Chute and the city’s Corporation Counsel in a meeting, “to explore the feasibility of establishing a ‘Citizen Review Board.'”
A citizen review board is a board consisting for community members that has the power to review actions of the police, investigate allegations of police misconduct and even set policy for the police.
The concept has been a common proposal for one of the new policies demanded by people who have organized massive protests nationwide, including in New Britain, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
