Media Advisory

Mayor Thomas M. Menino along with Police Commissioner Kathleen M. O’Toole will be present at tonight’s Operation Home Safe deployment. The scheduled time is 6:00pm at Boston Police Command Post located at Norfolk Avenue and Fessenden Street, Mattapan.

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Boston police to reopen fingerprint lab after overhaul. — By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer

From the AP December 25, 2005 BOSTON –Days after she was named Boston\’s new police commissioner, Kathleen O\’Toole was briefed on a troubling case: a man had been wrongly convicted because of a mistake in analyzing fingerprints. Stephan Cowans had been freed from prison three weeks earlier after prosecutors acknowledged that police who analyzed a

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Boston Police Seeking Homicide Victim/Witness Advocate

Homicide UnitVictim / Witness Advocate The Victim/Witness Advocate (VWA) will be hired to work with the Homicide Unit of the Boston Police Department (BPD) in providing appropriate services and referrals to surviving families of homicide victims and to witnesses in homicide investigations. The VWA will act as a BPD liaison to non-profit and governmental agencies;

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