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GO Direct Advisory Board Member

Captain Patricia Helliger
Honorary Chair Member


Captain Patricia Helliger was hired by the New Haven Police Department in October 1995. She was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the fourth year as an officer and assigned to Internal Affairs, Communications, Narcotics and Family Services Divisions. In 2009 she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. As a Lieutenant she supervised patrol officers and sergeants as the shift commander. She has been the OIC (Officer in Charge) of the Records and Property units. On February 19, 2016, she was promoted as the first Black female Captain and assigned as the Deputy of Administration. She is currently in charge of Property, Records, Planning, Garage/Fleet units and the New Haven Animal Shelter.

Graduated from Stony Brook University, L.I. NY with a degree in Liberal Arts with a Psychology Minor. She attended SMIP (Senior Management Institute for Police) which is part of Executive Strategic Management (PREF), Certified as a FBI Crisis Negotiator and a Kingian (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Nonviolence Instructor.

Captain Helliger is a certified Connecticut POST instructor in the area of Human relations, Conflict management (Kingian Nonviolence), Problem Oriented Policing, Note taking- Report Writing and Selection & Training of middle managers in law enforcement and Cultural Awareness and Diversity. She has instructed police officers at New Haven, Middletown, West Haven and Yale University Police Departments.

Captain Helliger is the creator of the New Haven Warrant Initiative-Safe Surrender Program that yield over 500 persons in 2015 with active arrest warrants voluntarily turning themselves into the police. The warrant initiative received national and international recognition as a semifinalist in the IACP/Motorola 2014 Webber Seavey Award. She is also the creator of the Building Horizon Through Cultural Diversity program (BHTCD), a cultural awareness program that foster relationships between police officers and School children. The program afforded officers an opportunity to establish and maintain a long term relationship with the children in the community through cultural exchanges and experiences.

Captain Helliger has been involved in community outreach during the holiday season. She is part of the KIEDC/MOR foundation, feeding thousands of families in the New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford County area. She received the (1) Chief's Memorandum of Commendation, (2) Letters of Appreciation 1998 and 2010, (4) Unit Citations and (5) Semi-Finalist as project manager for IACP/MOTOROLA 2014 Webber Seavey Award.