Nason named sergeant at TLPD
TUPPER LAKE — Tupper Lake patrolman Jordan Nason was promoted to sergeant at Monday’s village board meeting.
Nason is the department’s K-9 officer and is involved in much of its narcotics work. Chief Eric Proulx said Nason is now a sergeant on a provisional basis, but he plans to send him to supervisor school in January.
Jordan Nason is the son of Bruce Nason, who was a police chief in Saranac Lake, part-time officer in Tupper Lake and is now a chief again in Vermont.
After Nason’s promotion, village board Trustee Ron LaScala proposed a motion for the board to put $4,500 toward reimbursing Nason and patrolman Heather Kennedy for their police schooling. Nason has been with the department since April 2013, and Kennedy has been with the department for seven years, after doing dispatch for five years.
LaScala said they were the only two officers the village has not reimbursed for their schooling and that it was time for the village to support them.
“I’m basically asking the board to right a wrong, as far as I’m concerned,” LaScala said. “No other community makes their police officers pay for their own schooling.”
LaScala said this is because the old village board was sick of officers leaving the department to become state troopers or for other agencies, and pointed out that the only recent retirees from the department are former Chief Tom Fee and Sgt. Wesley Hoyt.
He said Nason and Kennedy have chosen to stay with Tupper Lake, and he wants to show the village’s gratitude for that.
Village Mayor Paul Maroun said the board would take time to look into the reimbursement before approving it, making sure it will not affect their retirement.
Nason left the room a sergeant as he went to finish his patrol for the evening.