GLOUCESTER — Police Chief Leonard Campanello is pleased to announce that Spectrum Health Systems Inc. of Worcester has signed on as a partner of the Gloucester Police Department Volunteer ANGEL Initiative. Within the first two days of the Initiative’s launch, four patients have come in for treatment, two of whom were admitted to Spectrum facilities.

GLOUCESTER — Police Chief Leonard Campanello today unveiled detailed plans for The Gloucester Police Department Volunteer ANGEL Program (“The Gloucester Initiative”), a revolutionary shift in municipal policing policy aimed at ushering heroin and opiate addicts into recovery and treatment, rather than jail cells and courtrooms.

GLOUCESTER — Police Chief Leonard Campanello is pleased to announce that Walgreens, which operates a 24-hour pharmacy in the city, is joining the Gloucester Police Department’s new drug initiatives.

GLOUCESTER — Police Chief Leonard Campanello returned home Wednesday evening after a two-day trip to Washington, D.C. with support from government leaders and word that Gloucester may soon receive a financial boost from the State for his new drug policy.

GLOUCESTER — In a historic shift in police drug policy, Police Chief Leonard Campanello announced at a citywide forum that the Gloucester Police Department is implementing major changes to the way it handles the opioid and drug epidemic that has swept through every community in the nation.