However, in advance of the full report, the chief for the first time identified the officers who used a Taser to stun Nicholas Brown, 24, of Stratford, who died about five hours after his arrest. Brown was charged with interfering with police and tampering with evidence.

His death has been ruled an accident caused by cocaine toxicity, according to the state medical examiner.

"I have the report on my desk and I'm reviewing it," Mello said Monday. He added that he expects the report will be released today.

The Connecticut Post has filed a Freedom of Information request for the report, but the chief said Monday, as he had said previously, the report is being made public because the internal review is closed.

Officer John Kranyak shot Brown with the Taser, a weapon that can deliver up to 5,000 volts of electricity in five-second bursts, as the suspect attempted to flee from police in a motel parking lot.

After pulling the weapon's metal probes from his body, Brown was stunned a second time by Officer William Cable, who made direct contact with the weapon onto Brown's body after the suspect refused to remove his hands from his pockets.

The chief on Monday also identified Detective Sgt. Jeff Matchett as the officer who used a Taser to subdue a suspect in a Nov. 15 incident.

In that case, Richard Paulus, 36, of the Plantsville section of Southington, appeared suicidal when he threatened to shoot officers as they attempted to enter his room at the Shoreline Motel.

Mello said in that case the stun gun saved Paulus' life, as the suspect may have been attempting to goad police into shooting him in a so-called "suicide by cop."

The Connecticut Post has filed a complaint with the state Freedom of Information Commission over Mello's earlier refusal to release the names of officers involved in both Taser incidents. Milford police had listed officers' names in daily arrest summaries prepared for the press, but former Chief Thomas Flaherty stopped the practice in January 2001.

Other police departments in the surrounding communities routinely provide the names of officers involved in an arrest.

Bridgeport Lt. James Viadero, the department spokesman, said the only time Bridgeport officers' names would be withheld is in cases where disclosure would impede an investigation.

Mello said he is researching the Milford policy and would likely revise it. But the chief said that a daily call log available to the press and to the public already lists names of officers.

"We don't redact officers' names from reports, nor would we," Mello said. "If it's releasable, it's there."

But Milford police, unlike in other area towns, do not normally release the reports themselves, only summary sheets that — at the moment — do not include officers' names.

Frank Juliano, Milford bureau chief, can be reached at 878-2130.