Sunapee Police honor administrative assistant for keeping department running smoothly

Sunapee Police used Administrative Professionals Day to put a name on the work that often keeps a small department from bogging down: Joshua Levasseur. The town recognized Levasseur on April 22, 2026 as the department’s executive administrative assistant, a role he has held since January 2022.

Levasseur’s job reaches well beyond a desk. The department said his work supports records, prosecution paperwork, communication with officers and staff, and the steady handling of daily tasks that become obvious only when they are missed. In a town like Sunapee, where police, fire, road, lake and town-office operations all overlap in a compact municipal structure, that kind of administrative continuity can matter as much as a patrol car on the road.

The recognition also underscored how deeply Levasseur is tied to the town’s public-safety operations. He is a Sunapee resident and a 2016 graduate of Sunapee Middle High School. Before becoming executive administrative assistant, he spent five years as the department’s harbor liaison officer, giving him a longer history with Sunapee Harbor and the department’s day-to-day work than the title alone suggests. A June 13, 2024 public police record on the town site also listed “Admin Joshua Levasseur” as the primary officer on a case entry, showing that his role has extended into the department’s public records system in a way that goes far beyond clerical support.

Sunapee Police’s staff directory currently lists Levasseur alongside Chief E. Neill Cobb, Lieutenant and Prosecutor Timothy Puchtler, Sergeant Nicholas Boisvert and Harbor Liaison Avery Gove, a reminder that the department runs with a small team and specialized responsibilities. The department also maintains a PD Activity page that posts weekly arrest and call-for-service logs, a quarterly report, traffic count and speed data, and an annual activity report, all of which depend on careful administrative work to stay current and useful.

The April 22 recognition came the same day the department also posted a separate note thanking New London Dispatch for service to the town during a Sunapee Selectboard meeting, suggesting the department was using the week to publicly acknowledge the support roles that sit around frontline policing. In a small department, those roles do not just keep paperwork moving. They keep the public record, the communication chain and the institution itself intact.