Lt. Art Weisgerber joined the Norwalk Police Department in September of 1988 and is currently the Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene/Identification Unit since 2011. Early in his career, he was assigned to the Patrol Division and the Special Service Division which investigated narcotic and vice crimes. In 1998 he was promoted to Detective and conducted general investigations. In 2002, he was assigned to the Cold Case Unit and attended the first Cold Case Reconstruction class at the Henry Lee Institute. In 2005, he was promoted to Sergeant and remained in the Detective Bureau as a Detective Sergeant and conducted Cold Case Investigations as time permitted. In 2011, he was assigned as the Commander of the Identification Unit which was revamped and renamed as the Crime Scene / Identification Unit. In 2012, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and remained as the Commander of the Crime Scene / Identification Unit as a hands-on supervisor. In 2009, he became a Certified State of Connecticut Police Instructor and has been teaching in-house recertification courses along with Police Academy instruction in Bridgeport and Milford. In 2016, he joined the State of Connecticut Police Officer Standards and Training Academy as an Adjunct Instructor teaching Law Enforcement Photography 1 & 2. Lt. Weisgerber has extensive training in photography, latent print development and identification and all facets of crime scene investigation. He has received numerous awards and citations for his investigative work, especially from the U.S. Office of the Inspector General and in 2019 was awarded the Norwalk Police Department Officer of the Year for his work for 17 years on the 1986 Homicide of 11 year old Kathleen Flynn.
