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Bergen freeholders decide against merging county police, sheriff’s office
Bergen freeholders decide against merging county police, sheriff’s office
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
The effort to merge Bergen County law enforcement into one mega-department came to a decisive end Wednesday when the freeholders defeated an ordinance to absorb the County Police into the Sheriff’s Office.
People in the the audience applaud the county freeholders’ decision Wednesday night to reject the attempt to merge the county police into the Sheriff’s Office.
By a vote of 3-2 with two abstentions, the board rejected the move to disband the 89-member County Police force, proposed as a cost-saving measure, after an tense evening that capped more than a year of hotly contested debate.
The vote to end the 95-year-old department would have faced an almost certain court challenge and a veto from County Executive Kathleen Donovan.
Donovan vowed during a tense and angry freeholder work session earlier in the evening that the ordinance — which she termed “idiotic” — would never be implemented.
http://www.northjersey.com/Bergen_freeholders_decide_against_merging_county_police_sheriffs_office.html
Buford T Pusser….I love it. Very fitting.
Hilarious article today in The Record about an officer in Cliffside Park accusing his captain of framing him because he was fooling around with the captain’s ex-wife.
This comes on the heels of yet another Zisa trial. And new disclosures of foul play with the Hackensack PD. It’s like a weekly event now.
Law enforcement in Jersey has earned it’s poor reputation.