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Troop C Veteran Barnes

Promoted To Commander

Major Faughnan Joins Internal Affairs

Maj. James E. Barnes
Maj. James E. Barnes

ONEONTA – State Police Capt. James E. Barnes today was promoted to the rank of major and assigned to command Troop C, headquartered at Sidney and covering a seven-county region that includes Otsego and the Oneonta Barracks.

He succeeds Maj. Donald M. Faughnan, who was promoted to rank of staff inspector and assigned to Internal Affairs, based in Liverpool, State Police Supt. Joseph A. D’Amico announced.

Major Barnes has been a career-long member of Troop C, which he joined on becoming a trooper in 1989.  In 1996, he was promoted to sergeant and, in 1997, to station commander.

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