Cornelius Koch, the mayor’s oldest son, and John Patrick Ryan, a sergeant’s son, formally joined the department at a ceremony on Monday.

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. 

Sons of Quincy Mayor Tom Koch and a former Quincy Police sergeant sworn in as Quincy police officers.

As the ever-growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry readers could only expect, Mayor Koch swore in as Quincy police officers his eldest son and the controversy-laden forty-something barkeep son of a former Quincy police sergeant and who is under a cloud of his own while the COVID-19 pandemic is sucking up most of the media’s attention.

Even so, a known local gadfly and someone else have incisively skewered these latest Koch Maladministration grifts via their comments posted to the South Shore broadsheet’s kid gloves coverage.

Key problems among many, a published report indicates that at least aspects of the problematic matters involving the former police sergeant and by extension perhaps also his surely laid off barkeep son have been under review by the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General.

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That and perhaps also soon others whom no Massachusetts state or local government official wants to have hot on her or his trail.

Granted, while Quincy Quarry is a strong supporter of the Sixth Amendment, the utterly unarguable appropriate protocol in this instance should have been that the hiring of the sergeant’s son or anyone else lower (e.g., Mayor Koch’s son) on the City of Quincy’s combined fire and police civil service list would be held up until the Attorney General completes her review, regardless of the fact that she and Mayor Koch are among the strangest of political bedfellows and thus a broomng is surely expected by certain made members of the Koch Maladministration.

And for another problem, as one can only assume that the rookie Quincy police department candidates will not be able to attend a police academy given that formal social distancing admonitions are resulting in the shutting down of Massachusetts-based police academy training. 

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Accordingly, the newbie probies will be collecting paychecks and enjoying benefits while at best only able to help out around the police headquarters in clerical and janitorial roles or go-fer the occasional to go run until they might be able to attend and then successfully graduate from Police Academy.

Source: Sons of mayor, former sergeant sworn in as Quincy police officers

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