History   The Carrabassett Valley Police Department was formed on April 4th, 1988 because the community felt that they were not being serviced effectively by the two Police agencies that had jurisdiction, the Maine State Police and the Franklin County Sheriffs' Department. Chief Ronald Moody was appointed the first and only member of the Department. At this time Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation maintained a Security department that operated on Sugarloaf Mountain and responded to security issues that concerned that property. The Security force was a uniformed team that was for resort security and had no police powers outside of Sugarloaf. Both agencies functioned independently for a short time and in early 1990 the Security department started training to do law enforcement functions as well as their other duties. Dispatching for the Police Department was initially done by Valley Communications (Ron Morin) and later the Franklin County Sheriffs Department in Farmington. About that same, Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation management and Town of Carrabassett Valley officials felt that it was counter-productive to have two agencies in Town performing the same function and proposed a "merger" of sorts. The outcome of the merger was that the Police Chief would also be the Security Director (an uncompensated position) of Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation and that the Sugarloaf Security staff would report to him. This would insure that the continuity of investigations and other situations could flow both off and on Sugarloaf property. Another portion of the merger was to take back emergency dispatch from Farmington and staff our own Communications Center, so that we would maintain 'local control" of our 911 and other emergency calls. Sugarloaf and the Town of Carrabassett Valley combined funding so that this merger would be viable. All of the Security personnel are Sugarloaf employees and the officers are appointed as Special Police officers for the Town so that they are able to enforce the law throughout Town. The Police Officers and Public Safety Dispatchers are State Certified and trained to the State of Maine standard. This has been a very successful merger and I know of no others like it in the State of Maine.