Crime & Safety

VIDEO: Gallagher Takes the Reins

Paul Gallagher, longtime lieutenant of the North Andover Police, took his oath as new interim police chief Monday.

In a ceremony that marked a new era in local law enforcement, North Andover Police got a new chief Monday.

Paul Gallagher, longtime lieutenant on the department, took his oath as the interim police chief in front of his family, friends and fellow members of the department.

Gallagher on April 29, in the wake of for a police chief position in Wareham.

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On Monday, after Town Clerk Joyce Bradshaw swore him in, Gallagher had his son Brendan, also on the police force, pin his chief badge on him.

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