Letter: Acting village manager should be informed
Friday, October 18, 2013
The Ridgewood News
Acting village manager should be informed
Boyd A. Loving
To the editor:
Regarding Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward’s comment that his department does not notify “the village” about confidential police investigations (“Contractor denies claims,” The Ridgewood News, Oct. 11, page A2), I fail to understand why Chief Ward would not arrange for a confidential one-on-one meeting with acting Village Manager Heather Mailander to inform her of any investigations related to allegations of official misconduct or the misappropriation/theft of taxpayer funds (unless, of course, she was the accused.)
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Because it’s a police investigation which could be compromised if that information is released prematurely. That includes the Acting Village Manager. She may be notified that an investigation is taking place, But she does not have to be given the details.
I don’t know about that. the village is paying the police dept. she is the village boss, end of the story. the cop’s are not the boss of the village in the end.
right bro.
If I were the VM, I wouldn’t want to know until the investigation was over and the cops had results I could act on in the case of an employee being investigated.
I do under stand the police need to do a job. but what if the cop shop would like to investagate any one just for the shit’s because they may be slow this week. or just for heck of it. u know what I’m saying. this can go eather way.
so when the investagation was going on with a village employee taking money from the coin room, and many times on film and caught in the room.red handed no one from up top did not know.huh, ok.
The procedure is mapped out in the ag guideline technically The vm is a civilian, who does not have to know the details while an investigation is on going.
#5 you got it backwards the top knew and informed the cops, because of revenue loss so they had to know before the cops.
Question. Who investigates the police dept? If there is a complaint or worse, suspicion of a crime, how would that be conducted? Remember the cop who had “relations” with a woman in the police car – how would that be handled?
what about the cop taking lab top’s. what about the cop who took about 200 grand from a fund acct. so true # 8.who.
The Bergen County Prosecutors Office would Probably handle those cases.
Suggesting the investigation would have been compromised if Ward had told Mailander suggests everyone outside of the police department are blabbermouths. Hey guys your doo doo stinks just like everyone elses.
was the investigation compromised because frank went public with his allegations
Police officers are sacrosanct in the state of NJ. Teachers are fair game but don’t dare suggest that cops are overpaid, underworked, poorly supervised, overbearing, overly litigious, retire too early, lazy, entitled, angry and juiced…..but many are.
#9 what about it they were caught and charged accordingly and fired so what?
The cops notify the prosecutors office of the facts the pros office reviews and makes a decision on how to proceed. If a civilian has a complaint about a local cop he can go to the bcpo if he or she wants to. To # 8 the cop who got a blow job in the police car did not commit a crime it was a violation of pd rules and regs, he was disciplined administratively.
Incorrect # 11 it does no such thing it is a violation of ag guidelines and pd rules and regs.
The Village Manager should have been in the loop. Period. End of sentence.
#17 you are wrong period end of sentence
#17 vm and mayor and council are supposed to be kept out of the loop until the investigation is complete, because they’re not covered by secrecy regulations and could not be prosecuted if they were to accidently reveal pertinent information.