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Captain Keith E. Houghton
 Captain Keith Houghton has been a member of the Chelsea Police Department since May 5th of 1986. On January of 2002 he was promoted to his current rank of Captain and is currently assigned as the Criminal Investigation Divsion Commander. Prior to his current assignment he was in Charge of the Patrol Division and most recently the Special Operation Division. During his time as Commanding Officer of the Special Operations Divsion he was in
charge of homeland security and a regional gang task force that received regional and national recognition for innovative community strategies. Under his command, the city become one of the first in the nation to strategically place 32 surveillance cameras in the city to promote homeland security and crime prevention. From 1995 through 2002 he was assigned as a lieutenant in charge of the departments Public Housing Division. Under his leadership, the department implemented a program designed to promote “Positive Policing” in public housing, which was featured as an innovative police strategy, by the “Viewpoints from the FBI Academy” program. Due to this successful program in 1998 Governor Paul Celluci appointed him to the Massachusetts Crime Watch Commission where he provided technical assistance to housing authorities across Massachusetts and the rest of the nation.
Captain Houghton holds a M.A. in Criminal Justice from Anna Maria College, is a 1995 graduate of the 17th session of the Senior Management Institute for Police; Sponsored by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the Police Executive Research Forum. He graduated from the 200th session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico Virginia in March of 2000. Captain Houghton is certified in mediation, Crime prevention through Environmental Design and has lectured at the National Crime Prevention Conference in Washington DC and HUD National Crime in Public Housing Conferences in New Orleans, Louisiana and San Antonio Texas. He continues to lecture at many regional and state gang conferences and is a member of many state and national police associations.
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