Christopher Donelan

A public safety professional for 38 years, I bring extensive experience in groundbreaking work done throughout my career to enhance public safety, reduce crime and make communities safe. Whether it is new techniques or approaches to training and educating police officers, or applying the newest science and evidence based treatments for the justice involved with addiction or mental health diagnosis, I have successfully led and implemented strategies that have transformed lives and helped to achieve the very basic desire to feel safe in our homes and neighborhoods.

• Massachusetts Sheriff’s Association Executive Training Committee, Chairman, Responsible for writing and implementing recruit training curriculum and in service training curriculum for Massachusetts corrections officers and deputy sheriffs., 12
• Massachusetts Sheriffs Association, Vice President, 4
• Municipal Police Training Committee, Responsible for oversight of Massachusetts police training standards. Achieved implementation of training requirements required by the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2018.
• Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and North Quabbin, Co Chair, Co Chair of this community based task force created in 2013 to combat the growing overdoses and deaths related to heroin and opioids in our community. This group led to the establishment of several strategies among housing, healthcare, employment and education to take a multipronged approached to supporting members of our community suffering from addiction and their families.
• Board of Trustees, Greenfield Community College, Oversight of College Administration and operations., 10