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Standing before six new police recruits in the sunlit lobby of the government center Wednesday, Police Chief Jon Fontneau welcomed the fresh-faced group, who exuded eagerness, confidence and a can-do attitude. Public Safety Director Ted Jankowski told them that Stamford officers put their lives on the line with courage and dignity every day, and the new recruits will be expected to do the same thing. Mayor David Martin told the 80 or so friends and family assembled for the morning ceremony in the lobby of the Government Center that being a police officer is a dangerous job, and there will be times when they will be concerned for the safety of the six recruits. Steven Orgera said one of the reasons he wanted to become a police officer was to follow his father Ernie Orgera's career into law enforcement. Orgera, who is the city's Director of Operations, was a Stamford police officer for 20 years before he retired in 1990 and rose to the top of the ranks in city government. Orgera, who has an older brother serving as a lieutenant in the Stamford Fire Department and another who works in the city's Operations Department, said he wanted to do something that mattered with his life. Steven's mother Joyce Orgera said she was very proud of her son, whom she said had been talking about being a police officer going back to his teens. Kelli Reynolds is originally from Milford but has lived in Stamford for five years and has been working in the police department's Central Hiring Office for a year or so helping the public hire officers for parades and road jobs as well as organizing the school crossing guard brigade.