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Osborne notified the Darien Police Commission and First Selectman Jayme Stevenson earlier this week that he will be retiring on September 1.
Osborne’s career began in 1983 after working with the Easton Police Department in 1981. In December of 1996, he was appointed to the Detective Division.
He was promoted to Sergeant in 2000, Lieutenant in 2008 and Captain in 2016.
Following the retirement of Chief Duane Lovello, the Darien Police Commission named Osborne the tenth Chief of Police. He was sworn into office on Feb. 15, 2017.
Osborne approved the Juvenile Review Board’s formulation, which was presented to him by the department’s Youth Division. He promoted the creation of Darien’s “Coffee With a Cop” event, which the department says has been a “successful community policing endeavor.”
Osborne is also a former supervisor of the Domestic Violence Liaison Unit for the department and has encouraged its expansion and supplemental training.
Osborne says he will continue to teach at Bridgeport’s Housatonic Community College, where has been working for 18 years as an adjunct instructor for Criminal Justice classes.
“After a total of 38 years in Law Enforcement, I really feel it’s necessary to move on and do something else at this point in my life,” said Osborne. “I’m certainly going to miss working with all of the great men and women of the DPD, but it is just time to make plans to move on later this year.”
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