BOSTON (SHNS) - New Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Col. Geoffrey Noble will be sworn in Friday morning, ushering in an era of new leadership at an agency that spent the summer at the center of a headline-making murder trial and recently had questions raised around its training model following a recruit's death. Massachusetts police gather at funeral for trooper recruit who died during training Noble will be sworn in Friday at 10:15 a.m. in Room 157 at the State House, the governor's office said. The State Police has been without a permanent leader since February 2023, 18 months ago, when Col. Christopher Mason retired. Interim Col. John Mawn, Jr. has been at the helm in the time since. Gov. Maura Healey, the first governor able to take advantage of a provision of the 2020 policing reform law allowing the State Police colonel to be hired from outside of the department's current ranks, said last year that she was looking for someone with "integrity and managerial competence" to lead the department on a more permanent basis. Free Karen Read movement calls for government accountability Noble retired as New Jersey State Police lieutenant colonel in 2022 and has been working as a regional president for a private security firm since.