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Article: Bangor police lieutenant retires after 25 years of service Diligence, personal touch marked Welch's tenure
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- June 28, 2002
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It was standing room only Thursday as people filled the Bangor
Police Department classroom to praise Lt. Robert Welch, who after 25
years is trading in his shield for one that now bears the word
retired.
Welch, who said he is going to miss the many people he's met,
helped and worked with over the years, was being remembered by those
same people for his diligence and the personal touch he brought to
his job.
"He was always willing to lend a hand and always willing to be
helpful and he has contributed so much to this department that we'll
never be able to repay him," Police Chief Donald Winslow told the
gathering that included current and past police officers, police
chiefs, prosecutors, civic ...