Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello swore in the department’s newest officer, Luis Moura, a three-year Bridgeport police veteran who will start work on Saturday.
Luis Moura
Police Officer Luis Moura takes his oath of office from Police Chief Duane Lovello on Friday at Darien Police Headquarters
“This is always a happy event for us, when we welcome someone into our family,” Lovello said.
Police Commission Chairman Paul Johnson said his board is “very very pleased to get another officer who’s been working with another department, who is fully trained and who can step into his job in Darien” without further training. The department also has one officer who just completed police academy training and has another candidate in the police academy.
Moura will be on patrol with other officers for a while as he gets to know his way around town, Lovello said.
Darien’s newest officer is the father of two boys, and he said that helps him with his police work. “I believe in a community policing approach,” he said. “I’m very family-oriented, and that carries over into my approach to policing.”
Moura will have a period as a probationary patrol officer, but he received his badge on Friday.
Correction: Officer Moura’s last name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article.
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