1. As the result of budget cuts, our website has been permanently disabled. 11:15 AM Mar 16th via web  Source: NIPD Twitter http://twitter.com/nipd

Good there wasn’t much of any interest anyway. From the police blotter you could get in the paper, to the warrant page that never changed, to pics of the station and officers that showed the individuals you needed to avoid in your life it was a waste of $.   Although it featured a great pic of Chief Hollywood.  For $5 a month fee to any numerous server rental sites and a 5th grade education this would get them back up to the site the NIPD had to take down for budget cuts.  Do you actually think the New Ipswich Police has no access to the outside world via a high speed T1, dsl etc.  Apparently the IT guy they were paying was the problem.  Maybe they could use the http://www.townofnewipswich.org/ web access with an Ethernet connection or a wireless router for $30.  The town site is still up.

Lets Translate (Not that you need any): You the tax payer were paying too much for the webmaster.  Since the site did not utilize any PHP or SQL databases a 5th grader could have ran this site.  Glad it’s gone!  Don’t worry it’ll be back sooner or later- hopefully later.

P.S. Thanks for ruining the Magical Disney Experience for all the other tourists who had to see the news station film your bullshit in public.

What a pile of bull shit.  While I believe they shouldn’t be here illegally, this has been going on for countless decades under the watchful eye of the U.S Government. Lets waste town and state money on laws Chief Garrett Chamberlain knows he has no authority to enforce.  This seems like his way of manipulating the real laws of this country because he may think they are not working. Problem is, all anyone sees is his flag waving smoke screen, first grade view, of an issue, much larger than he will ever be.   Chief Garrett Chamberlain is a chief of police in one of the smallest towns in NH.   What this means is that he has impressed the selectman enough to receive a monetary bonus partly due to because he put New Ipswich on the map.  Temporarily of course.  Great job, however it probably cost the state more – and that translates into you the resident paying for it.  Congratulations Chief Chamberlain for accomplishing nothing!  However, what you have shown us is how the police can stretch and manipulate the existing laws, to get us anyway they can, when they can’t arrest us any other way! You don’t even have to be Mexican either for them to do it to you! So Chief, do you like your cucumbers $1.00 each or $10 each?  Yeah I thought so…

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If you came across this blog because you have been attacked, assaulted, bitten by a dog in New Ipswich, NH or any town and you feel the police and dog owners are trying to make you the aggressor or criminal, please let this site know. We will put you in contact with past cases/information you can use, and people in this town that will help you in your case/complaint against the cops and complaining party. It’s a small town police department which in many cases do more harm than good for a community. Larger towns and cities would laugh at the things smaller towns file charges for. -But hell it’s not their life it’s yours- so they won’t care.  There is no room for ignorant cops in this community.  Cops who are ignorant when it comes to bad dog behavior, and the owners who let it continue because they just don’t care.  Email: townlosers AT gmail.com

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Not to long ago I sent an email to New Ipswich, NH Chief Garrett “Hollywood” Chamberlain in confidence that was of a private nature and expected he would be the only one reading it, since he was the only one it was addressed to. I was wrong.

To my amazement and horror only a few hours later, I received a reply from the selectman replying to the chief and myself. Immediately I thought I sent the selectman an email. However, knowing I am a bit knowledgeable about the procedure of sending email, I knew I never sent the Selectman anything. Actually it was the selectman’s lack of knowledge or error of what happens when you hit “reply to all” instead of “reply to sender” that triggered his response to the Chief and myself. This in turn triggered my questioning response. I immediately replied to the selectman, as I know the button do that, and he replied back. -No the response was meant for the Chief he said.

He continued to inform me on about how the Chief was under his yearly review and my email was sent to him to show that he was responsive to the citizen’s questions and concerns. How thrilling I thought to be part of such a process that in the end will only benefit one person, and that person is not “I”. It benefited the Chief to the tune of approximately $00,000 in a review bonus of course approved by the town heads.

I would have expect perhaps an email to me from the chief asking if it was ok for my email to be used for review purposes, but non-was received. Why? Perhaps my permission was not needed? If emails must be forwarded for answers pertaining to the TOPIC at hand ok then fine. However not for personal gain.

Maybe this is an example of the arrogance that spills over in Police Departments who actually think I would be ok with it. Since they are sworn to uphold the law, and they in their minds “only”, probably felt they had the right to make that decision – on my behalf. Maybe later on your behalf too. Remember we can trust them, as there has never been a police officer selectman, mayor, prosecutors, lawyer…ordinary person that has ever been dishonest.

Sorry, I don’t share the same belief. I trust my wife, child, my close friends, and my dog (sometimes). I don’t see him on the list, why would he be? -Because he is a sworn in? You’ll have to do better than that. I don’t know him.  I don’t even know the Selectman.  Nothing personal, but employment type and position does not guarantee trustworthiness.

My response to the selectman, “Always glad to help the Chief out…” Right!?

So if you’re thinking about ever sending the New Ipswich Police Dept anything through an email, don’t. Especially, if it is of a sensitive or private nature.

What you perceive as a sensitive email issue could be sent around the town on their server, for the sole purpose of the Chief’s benefit “monetary as we all know” or any officer’s gain. Perhaps it was just a slip on the Chief’s part, or just business as usual knowing what’s best for all. Since I never had the chance to be asked, here is my answer: NO. It can’t be used and emailed around town- NO sorry request DENIED! Wasn’t the CNN and FOX headlines enough, why did he need my email to prove his value to the town of New Ipswich? Stardom clouds the judgment apparently.

Since email is the least secure way to send info I’d appreciate email only sent to the person that it was intended for to read it. Why should I worry? I mean you can trust them right? Right? Anybody…

Remember I received the response from the selectman in error and would never have known about my email being sent around town. To boot this is the Chief of Police. Shall we now trust the patrolman too, as we all know work independently on a daily basis, without any hand holding, or over sight from the Chief.

The lesson here is once you send an email always assume it may be read by someone other than who it was intended for. If you think you can trust the police to hold anything you send to them in confidence you are sadly mistaken. I can only assume the copy the selectman received never went anyplace else… Except back to me. We can’t leave the sensitivity of emails to one-person’s discretion.

At work the other day I received credit card information on someone I didn’t know, as it was sent to me in error. I don’t work with credit card information at my position. Imagine now, the seriousness of privacy issues relating to the email system and other peoples definition of private, and semi private. I believe the town needs a privacy policy relating to emails only addressed to one person in confidence. Maybe they already have one? If they do, it’s not working.

The email sits on my server with all date and responses intact. The pure fact that I don’t dump the email message on this email is due to the privacy I have for others and my own private inquiries to others.- I could never make this stuff up.