Nick is a highly decorated corrections professional whose skill, competence and thorough understanding of the corrections processes and duties of Sheriff exceeds the high benchmarks necessary to keep our community safe and return offenders to our streets as productive and contributing members of our society.
As the role of the sheriff’s office has evolved from care while in custody to community outreach and crime prevention, Sheriff Cocchi has been deploying highly-trained deputy sheriffs around Hampden County to assist local police for you- the people of Western Massachusetts.
When the entire Blanford Police Department abruptly resigned in 2018, Sheriff Cocchi directed deputies to patrol the streets there to let the residents know they were not alone.
In 2019 when Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno asked for assistance in keeping the city’s flagship public space, Forest Park, safe for the summer, Sheriff Cocchi answered the call and deployed deputies.
What has resulted is a multi-faceted partnership that brings community policing tactics to Forest Park for two shifts a day for about nine months each year​.