Officers of the Month

When I first met Detective Pat Iorfino a few years back it was after the biennial Silver Shield Association awards event.  The detective had to have been given a dozen awards at the event — saving this life, cracking that case.

Well, Detective Iorfino, Detective Al Moavero, another highly accomplished and decorated GPD Detective (not to mention a WW II history scholar), and their partner Detective Martin O’Reilly (whom I haven’t had the pleasure of getting to know) may have saved other lives, including their own, by keenly observing a gun in the waist-band of a suspect’s pants.

Read the details below….

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PRESS RELEASE

GREENWICH POLICE DEPARTMENT

Phone (203) 618-8819

Fax (203) 618-8852

Contact: Lt. Daniel Allen Phone: (203) 618-8819

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 1, 2010

Officer of the Month

The Greenwich Police Department has selected Detectives Pasquale Iorfino, Albert Moavero and Martin O’Reilly as its recipients of the Officer of the Month Award for November 2009.

On Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at approximately 3:30 P.M., members of the Uniformed Services Division and the Criminal Investigations Division responded to a private residence on Stanwich Road on a report that the homeowner had just returned home and discovered that the residence had been illegally entered and various rooms had been ransacked and an undetermined amount of valuable items had been taken.  The investigators while conducting an examination of the scene for possible evidence subsequently located an item of possible evidentiary value that led them to a local market store in Stamford, CT.

A further inquiry resulted in a possible suspect being identified, who subsequently appeared at the store while the investigators were there and was interviewed.  The suspect gave incriminating statements about the burglary and was subsequently place under arrest.  During a physical search incident to a custodial arrest, a loaded firearm was discovered in the waistband of the suspect.

The investigators’ keen observations and investigative skills led to identifying a suspect and obtaining incriminating information that resulted in solving the burglary and the recovery of a firearm that belonged to a resident in Alabama.

Congratulations to Detectives, Iorfino, Moavero and O’Reilly on a job well done.

Officer of the Month, Detective Martin O'Reilly

Officer of the Month, Detective Albert Moavero

Officer of the Month, Detective Pasquale Iorfino