David Rice:  

Sergeant David Rice has been a full time police officer with the Greenfield Police Department since August 1999 and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on July 1, 2012. His current assignment is as the Swing Shift Watch Commander. He was previously assigned as the Department’s Downtown Community Policing Officer. Sergeant Rice completed a Masters of Arts in Criminal Justice with a Post Graduate Certificate in the Prevention of Domestic Violence at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. As a capstone to his graduate studies, he completed a research study of police officers in Franklin and Hampshire Counties attitudes towards and knowledge of predominant aggressor policy in domestic violence cases were both persons make allegations of an assault and battery. Officer Rice is also a member of Alpha Phi Sigma the National Criminal Justice Honor Society. Officer Rice holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Officer Rice is a founding member of the Mayor of Greenfield’s Task Force for a Domestic Violence Free Greenfield. On behalf of the Task Force, Officer Rice has organized seven domestic violence trainings for area police dispatchers, part time police officers from surrounding communities, local domestic violence advocates, and police supervisors, which was provided at no cost to the participating agencies. He also served on the Domestic Violence Safety and Accountability Audit Team that studied police response to domestic violence in Franklin and Hampshire Counties. As a part of this team, he was involved in developing a model domestic violence policy and domestic violence report writing guidelines for the Northwestern District. When the Audit Team’s findings were presented, he was one of two officers selected to present the team’ s findings at a conference attended by a majority of the Police Chiefs in Hampshire and Franklin Counties. He was also a member of a subsequent audit team that evaluated court system’s response to domestic violence. Currently, he is involved in a team that implementing the recommendations of both audit teams and developing the framework to evaluate and respond to high risk domestic violence offenders. Officer Rice is the Department’s Liaison...Expand for more