Officials announce reforms coming to State Police following audi – Western Mass News

Gov. Charlie Baker and the head of the state police have announced changes in “policies and procedures” after the agency was rocked by an overtime scandal and other recent disclosures.

Baker was joined Mass. State Police Supt. Col. Kerry Gilpin and other officials for the announcement at a Statehouse news conference on Monday.

An internal audit last month uncovered cases in which troopers may have been paid overtime for shifts never worked in 2016. Nine troopers have since retired and nine others are suspended without pay.

As a result of that audit, Gilpin announced that the department will be eliminating Troop E as a stand-alone section, which covered the Mass. Pike from the New York border to Boston.  Those…