A former Hopkinton police officer who was suspended over his failure to report allegations of child rape against a fellow officer had his certification reinstated by the Massachusetts’ Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission Friday.
Timothy Brennan was fired from the Hopkinton Police Department earlier this year for violating department policies by failing to report sexual assault and rape allegations involving former Deputy Police Chief John Porter and a child. Porter was indicted on three counts of child rape in May 2023. Investigators said he sexually assaulted and raped a Hopkinton High School student in 2004 and 2005 when she was 14 years old and Porter was a school resource officer.
Brennan was hired by the Milford Police Department in July.
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In an August hearing, Brennan said the girl had come to him not as a police officer but as a close confidant. POST commissioner Marsha Kazarosian wrote in her decision that Brennan’s to reinstate his certification that his actions do not “currently create a risk to the health, safety, or welfare of the public.”