The Massachusetts police oversight board has revoked the certifications of five officers, citing various on- and off-the-job misconduct, including criminal convictions in some cases.
Each decertification carries a lifetime ban from future law enforcement work in the Bay State and ensures the officers will be added to a national registry of decertified police.
The Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, Commission, has decertified 46 officers in the two years since it began exercising its authority to do so under a 2020 policing reform law…