Detective BENJAMIN J. Campbell

Benjamin J. Campbell would have turned 32 years old on Monday April 8^th. He grew up in Western Massachusetts and attended high school and college in the area. He graduated from Westfield State University in 2011. He was a star baseball player and represented the community in an exemplary manner. His mother, father and brother still reside in Western Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Hilary and his son Everett.

Benjamin joined the Maine State Police early in 2012 and attended the 18 week Basic Law Enforcement Training Program and the 10 week Maine State Police Recruit Training Troop. He was assigned to Troop E and patrolled Northern Penobscot County for the first several years of his career. He was well known by local police departments in his area and community members. He was known to be very helpful and approachable. In May of 2018 he was promoted to full Polygraph Examiner. Benjamin quickly became highly skilled as a Polygraph Examiner, and worked on Major Crimes Unit-North cases that led to successful prosecutions because of his great work. Benjamin believed in giving back, and assisted in teaching interview and interrogation to the Recruits at the RTT academy and was an active EVOC Instructor. Benjamin also recently joined the SPIDRE (State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Enforcement) team.

Most importantly, Benjamin was a family man. He was deeply in love with his wife Hilary. They lived next to Hilary’s family in Millinocket with their dog Browning. He loved hunting and fishing and enjoyed the outdoors. He even proposed to his wife by tying the ring to an ice fishing trap – when the flag rose, he scored the best catch in his life, Hilary. They were married on September 17, 2016. Last October, together they celebrated the birth of their son Everett. He is their pride and joy and spitting image of his father.

Ben was an honest, kind hearted, hard-working, professional, and one of the nicest men anyone has ever met. He enjoyed his life, was happy in his career, and loved his home and family. There can be no greater example of who he was, and how he lived, than by the way he was taken from us—spending extra time standing on the side of the road in a snow storm to offer kind words to a stranded motorist. He will be greatly missed, and remembered fondly as a hero in Blue. Rest easy Detective, end of watch April 3, 2019.