Chief of Police of Dracut v. Town of Dracut

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the effective operation of [a police] department requires that suspected misconduct of members of the force be thoroughly investigated”
• a collective bargaining agreement which impinges upon the power and authority of police chief to assign officers to duties is null and void
• \What we have said above may not necessarily apply to agreements covering employees of other municipal departments\
• town could not bargain away police chiefs authority over such matters
• police chief's statutory authority to assign officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).