In lieu of finding a new police chief, Hartford has chosen an old one. City Mayor Arunan Arulampalam announced Wednesday that ...

James Rovella has "demonstrated the steady hand and trustworthy leadership our city needs during this critical time for ...

Rovella served as the city's police chief from 2012 to 2018 and then as DESPP commissioner until 2023. He came out of ...

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam announced Wednesday that he plans to appoint interim Hartford Police Chief James Rovella to ...

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam announced that Interim Chief James Rovella will serve as the permanent Hartford chief of police. Gov. Ned Lamont appointed Rovella as the state’s commissioner of the ...

The city of Hartford is set to have a new police chief, and the role will not be new to him. James Rovella, who has been ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - After more than a year of searching, Hartford officials picked a permanent police chief. Mayor Arunan Arulampalam announced Wednesday that James Rovella, who had been serving as ...

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin declared his candidacy on Wednesday, bringing the total number of candidates in the mayoral race up to four. A rally in support of an 18-year-old Wilbur Cross High ...

Commissioner James C. Rovella and Col. Stavros Mellekas are retiring as Connecticut’s top public safety officials, departing as the state police are facing a federal investigation.

Rovella was a homicide investigator at HPD, then spent a dozen years as inspector and chief inspector at the chief state state’s attorney’s office. He returned to Hartford as its chief in 2012.

James Rovella encountered plenty of police officers while working his way through college at the Hartford YMCA. As he was finishing his master’s degree in public administration at the University ...

Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner James Rovella, right, seated alongside Connecticut State Police Superintendent Col. Stavros Mellekas, center, and Lt ...