VASSALBORO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- 50 new police officers graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Friday.
The new officers will fill the ranks of state, local and county law enforcement as well as the Warden Service and Marine Patrol.
"I'd like to be respected by my community," said Winslow Police Officer Alexander Jones. "An officer someone can count on."
In their thoughts was fallen officer Stephen Arkell, who was killed last week during a domestic dispute in New Hampshire... As well as the men and women honored at the Maine Fallen Officers memorial, last week.
Director John Rogers says he has one goal at the academy.
"It is to never ever put another name on that tomb stone in Augusta," Rogers said. "To properly train officers here at the B.L.E.T.P. so well that they never forget what they've learned and that they never get killed in the line of duty."
Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said many of the new officers will begin patrolling this holiday weekend.
The new officers are (alphabetical order by department) –
Nathaniel A. Alvarado Jr, James E. Burns Jr, Jeremy S. Caron, and John J. Hermanson Jr, Bangor Police
Judson L. Cake, Bar Harbor Police
Eric N. Bryan, Bath Police
Jason N. Couture and Gregory A. Jones, Belfast Police
Tom Chryplewicz, Boothbay Harbor Police
Zachary D. Caron, Brewer Police
Adam J. Ricci, Buxton Police
Timothy M. Dubois, Caribou Police
Warren P. Day and Sarah A. Turner, Eliot Police
Justin E. Blais and Ryan L. Wagner, Farmington Police
Colt C. Sleaster, Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Stephen T. Witham, Fryeburg Police
Ashley A. Cox, Kennebunkport Police
Timothy F. Mace, Machias Police
Craig W. Dyer, Madison Police
Ian W. Anderson, Brian A. Brodie, and Joel H. Tourtelotte, Maine Marine Patrol
Joshua J. Beal and Kyle A. Hladik, Maine Warden Service.
Robert A. Drouin and Derek W. MacDonald, Mexico Police
Eric J. Trainque and William A. Watson, Old Orchard Beach Police
Cody M. Haverly-Johndro, Old Town Police
Peter D. Wentworth, Orono Police
Brian A. Cashman and Christopher T. Gervais, Portland Police
Kaitlyn E. McLaughlin, Presque Isle Police
Scott A. Redmun II, Rockland Police
Cooper A. Plaisted, Rockport Police
Shawn D. Merchant, Southwest Harbor Police
Olaf P. Sigaud, Thomaston Police
Samuel C. Irish, University of Maine Police Department.
Timothy R. Carter, Washington County Sheriff's Office
Daniel C. Brown and Patrick G. Mank, Waterville Police
Kevin M. Schoff, Wells Police
Derek W. Daley, Wilton Police
Justin L. Hudnor, Windham Police
Alexander I. Jones, Winslow Police
David L. McKinnon, York Police
and Benjamin M. Cyr and Tyler M. Dunbar, both tuition students from Husson University
