Captain Dave Michael Dubiel

Captain Dave Dubiel with the West Hartford Police Department passed away on 10/17/19 from brain cancer. Captain Dave joined the CPWDA on 1/13/97 to 12/31/10.  Dave moved up the ranks since being hired in 1991 as a police officer, promoted to Sergeant in 2001, and Lieutenant in 2005 and then to Captain in 2012. Dave and K9 Luke were the 2002 prestigious Wasson Award recipients. They were selected as the Daniel Wasson Memorial K9 Award Winners for assisting the Connecticut State Police and East Hartford Police involving an exceptional two mile hard surface urban track across several highways and city streets, leading to the arrest of two men for evading a serious motor vehicle accident.  The team also tracked a subject who was taken at gunpoint following a report of shots fired, as well an apprehension of a fleeing suspect in a burglary in progress and apprehension of suspects in a stolen motor vehicle taken at gunpoint. He is survived by his wife Amy and his son Zane.

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