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Chaplain Email Father Paul

Father Paul T. Clifford
Police Chaplain

The Executive Committee of the New England Police Benevolent Association, Inc., I.U.P.A. Local 9000, AFL-CIO has selected the Reverend Paul T. Clifford to serve as the New England PBA’s first Chaplain. Fr. Clifford is well-known and well-respected in police circles and is also the Chaplain for the Hopkinton (MA) Police and the Massachusetts Police Association (MPA).

Fr. Clifford is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. He was born and raised in Norwood, MA and attended Xaverian Brothers High School, graduating in 1982. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1992 and his first assignment was to St. Joseph’s Parish in Wakefield, MA. In 1997, he was transferred to Ste. Marguerite d’Youville Parish in Dracut, MA. “Father Paul” as he is often known formally began his work as a chaplain in the year 2000 with the Greater Lowell Critical Incident Stress Team and, later that year, was invited to serve as Chaplain for the Massachusetts Police Association. From 2002-2006 he served as chaplain of the Dracut Police Department (New England PBA Local 4). In July of 2006 he was transferred to St. John’s in Hopkinton, MA.

On September 11, 2001, as a result of the terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, Fr. Paul was deployed to Ground Zero. Those experiences and others moved a group of chaplains under the leadership of the late Rev. David Mahn to form an association of police chaplains in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in April of 2002, the Massachusetts Corps of Police Chaplains, Inc. was established. As a founding member of this organization, Fr. Paul remains on their executive board today. In May of 2004, Fr. Paul offered the Invocation during the Candlelight Vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC.

We are proud to have the guidance and spiritual leadership of Fr. Paul as part of our organization. As chaplain of the New England PBA, Fr. Paul will appear with the executive board at formal functions and meetings. He will serve as a resource on religious and ethical matters and wherever possible assist and support any member of the New England PBA who may need or desire the services of the Chaplain. God bless.