Veteran Norwich police officer promoted to sergeant
Norwich — During his 11-year career as a Norwich police officer, Kyle Besse has taken various positions that have given him increased experience, interaction with the community and training, along the way earning medals of valor and service.
That was the recipe, police Chief Patrick Daley said Friday, that earned him a promotion to sergeant.
“He is an experienced police officer whose previous assignments will serve him well in his new position,” Daley told an audience that included fellow and former Norwich police officers, city employees and members of the City Council and Besse’s family.
His wife, Brittany, pinned on his new sergeant’s badge Friday.
Besse thanked his wife and family for their support during the long days and missed family events while he was on duty, at times out of town. He joked that he couldn’t thank all his fellow officers and supervisors, because his speech would go on for over two hours.
“Always have your phone on,” he said to two new detectives in attendance, “even when you’re with your families in the middle of a Christmas tree farm trying to find that perfect tree, because trust me, your phone will ring at the most opportune time.”
Besse, 35, of Scotland, grew up in Stonington and received an associate degree in criminal justice at McIntosh College in New Hampshire. He graduated from the Connecticut Police Academy in Meriden in 2008.
His training during his tenure as a Norwich police officer included crime scene courses, advanced drunken driving enforcement, drug interdiction, statement analysis and interview and interrogation training. He completed the 80-hour New York Police Department Homicide Investigation course.
He served as a patrol officer from 2007 to 2012, a community policing officer from 2012 to 2014, a member of the New London County Cold Case Unit from 2014 to 2016 and as a police detective from 2016 to 2019.
Besse will be assigned to the midnight shift as a patrol supervisor.
“To the men and women of the midnight shift,” he said, “I’m excited to work alongside you through the sleepless nights, and I’m ready to fulfill my obligation to get you home safe every morning to your families.”
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