Village Trustees Promote
Cavilieri To Police Chief
COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board appointed a 27-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department as part-time police chief Tuesday, Sept. 8.
He succeed Michael Covert, who retired on disability two years ago and passed away in February.
Cavilieri has served as a patrolman since February 2019, and will oversee two fulltime officers, Jim Kelman and Terrence Silvera, and several part-timers.
After his retirement from the Suffolk department in 2013, Cavilieri joined his wife Barbara in operating Mountainview Kennels in Schenevus.
A New Jersey native, Cavalieri attended Rutgers and joined the Houston Police department in the early 1980s, where he served three years.
