Vermont State Police have announced the promotion of Sergeant Doug Norton from acting lieutenant and commander to lieutenant and station commander at the Rutland Field Station.
Norton joined the state police in 2002. Following his graduation from the Vermont Police Academy, he was assigned to the Rutland Barracks as a trooper. He was promoted to sergeant/patrol commander at the Rutland Barracks in 2010, and then four years later became a detective sergeant, also in Rutland. He returned to the role of sergeant/patrol commander in Rutland in 2016, and became acting lieutenant and station commander at Rutland in 2021. Norton has also served on the Vermont State Police Crime Scene Search Team and is a graduate of the FBI’s National Academy.
A Vermont State Police field station commander is responsible for overseeing delivery of law enforcement services to the communities served by that station. Field station commanders are the local representative of the Vermont State Police to the community it serves, and they work with local officials and residents to address public safety and law enforcement concerns in their service area.
The Rutland Barracks provides police coverage throughout Rutland County as well as the town of Plymouth in Windsor County. The field station also provides assistance as requested to police departments in Brandon, Castleton, Fair Haven, Killington, Pittsford, Rutland City and Rutland town police departments, and works closely with the Rutland County and Windsor County sheriff’s departments.