Troop C Veteran Barnes
Promoted To Commander
Major Faughnan Joins Internal Affairs
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.
In 1999 Barnes became an investigator for the Bureau of Criminal Investigations. He was assigned to the Margaretville station and then the Major Crimes Unit in Sidney. In 2000, he was promoted to lieutenant. In 2009, he was promoted to BCI captain at Sidney.
Major Barnes is married and has three children.
The other counties in Troop are Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Tioga, and Tompkins. Troop C officers work out of 17 facilities.
