By W. Zachary Malinowski
CENTRAL FALLS -- Police Chief James J. Mendonca is heading to Harvard.
Mayor James Diossa announced on Monday that Mendonca, who was appointed chief earlier this year has been accepted into Harvard University's executive education program, Leadership Decision Making.
The program will run from June 23-28 at the Kennedy School of Government on Harvard's Cambridge campus.
"I am proud that our city has a chief of police who constantly seeks to improve himself and his department in order to better serve and protect our community," Diossa said.
The leadership program is being funded through a fellowship sponsored by the Hassenfeld Foundation.