7 sustained disciplinary complaints the Winthrop Police Department reported to the Massachusetts POST Commission. “Sustained” means the department's own internal affairs substantiated it; a complaint can carry several allegations, and a red box flags any POST decertification.
That is not the whole record. The department's own files, below, show 16 sustained cases since 2011, of which the state lists 7.
2/11/2025 · IA 25WIN-2-IA
Sleeping on Duty
Other Misconduct · Non-Minor Policy Violation
Discipline: Suspension, 1-5 days (Suspended 3 shifts 30 hours without pay)
10/25/2023 · IA 23WIN-6-IA
5 sustained allegations:
The Officer while off duty, violated department policy when by incurring criminal charges.
Discipline: Resigned/Retired in Lieu of Discipline
POST Decertified · 2/13/2025
On February 13, 2025, Feeley agreed to be decertified based on a conviction for eight felony counts, a criminal disposition.
Now: Unassociated Officer
2/3/2022 · IA 22WIN-4-IA
Domestic with strangulation
Other Misconduct · Failure to respond to an incident according to established procedure
Discipline: Not Applicable (OFFICER RETIRED OR RESIGNED TO AVOID DISCIPLINE)
1/28/2021 · IA 21WIN-1-IA
Violation of Sexual Harassment Policy
Other Misconduct · Other / conduct unbecoming
Discipline: Retraining
Now: Chelsea Police Department
3/17/2020 · IA 20Win-1-IA
Embelishing
Truthfulness or Professional Integrity · Other form of untruthfulness
Discipline: Suspension, 1-5 days
4/1/2015 · IA 15WIN-10-IA
Untruthful statements during IA
Truthfulness or Professional Integrity · Other form of untruthfulness
Discipline: Last Chance Agreement
11/25/2014 · reported 2/23/2017
Violation of Sexual Harassment Policy
Other Misconduct · Other / conduct unbecoming
Discipline: Suspension, 1-5 days
The certified / decertified badge is the officer's current POST certification, which is separate from the discipline shown. POST only revokes certification for a narrow set of serious causes, so an officer can have a sustained finding and still be certified. The status is the one POST lists with each record.
From POST's September 2, 2026 release, read by this site automatically when POST publishes a new one. Names and wording are as published by the state; some allegation details are redacted at the source. The source at POST ↗
Every internal affairs case the department has disclosed, from its own log and its submissions to the state (the files below), with the cases the state publishes marked against them.
sustainednot sustainedexoneratedunfoundedotherunder investigation
49 internal affairs cases the department has disclosed. 16 were sustained; the state's POST records list 7 of them. The other 9 were sustained in the department's own files and appear nowhere in the state's. Cases after early 2021 are known only where the department reported them.
The same colors as above. Complaints from the public were sustained 3 of 26 times; complaints the department raised about its own officers, 10 of 19. The log names the source of each complaint through early 2021; later cases say so only where the department's 2023 submission does.
all cases sustained. “Department rule” is the department's own catch-all for policy violations.
The state only publishes complaints that were sustained. These files, released by the Town under public records requests, also show the complaints the department closed as not sustained or exonerated.
The department's internal affairs log for 2011 to 2020: each case, what was alleged and how it ended. Released in April 2021. Its text was read by OCR and can be searched.
What the department sent the POST Commission in 2023: each officer's complaint history with its outcome, sustained or not, and the chief's and deputy chief's correspondence with the Commission.