For Immediate Release

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Contact: John Guilfoil
Phone: 617-993-0003
Email: john@jgpr.net

Statement of Police Chief Scott Allen

EAST BRIDGEWATER — Police Chief Scott Allen issues the following statement in response to an ongoing investigation regarding an employee of the town of East Bridgewater.

“We have been made aware of an ongoing investigation in the neighboring town of Whitman involving a contractor for the town of East Bridgewater who provides animal control services.  It is the procedure of our Police Department that we will not utilize these services pending the outcome of the investigation. The East Bridgewater Police Department is in contact with neighboring communities and law-enforcement agencies to provide animal control resources on a mutual aid basis in the interim.”