The agency will be celebrating 100 years in 2017, and Coots received his badge in late 1983, he said.īorn and raised just outside of Boston, Coots studied criminal justice at Elmira College in Chemung County, along the southern border. “I’ve been around for more than a third of the state police’s existence,” Coots noted. Then, following a well-deserved Florida vacation with the family, he will start at Hamilton College in March. “They keep you young.”Ĭoots’ last day with the state police will be Wednesday, Feb. He said he looks forward to working with the students. “I saw a new challenge,” Coots said about the college position. Coots, 55, of Syracuse, has served as the commander of the centrally-located Troop D since 2014, a promotion he received after nearly 10 years as a zone captain at the Marcy office.Ĭoots said he was recently asked to take a position with the state police in Albany, but he changed his mind when a new opportunity arose that would keep him closer to home.Ĭoots will be the new Director of Campus Safety at Hamilton College in Kirkland.
“I will miss every day that I’m not here, and I will miss everyone for letting me be part of it,” Coots added.
I love being the troop commander for Troop D,” Coots said during an interview today. Coots will be hanging up his stetson hat and gold badge next week.Ĭoots’ 33-year career with the New York State Police has taken him to nearly every corner of the Empire State, but he said Central New York and the Mohawk Valley have made him feel most at home. After more than three decades wearing the gray and purple of a state trooper, Major Francis S.
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