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Ridgewood NJ, on Friday June 30th, Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke signs off after 27 years of service. Congratulations and good luck in retirement! Luthcke was the second woman to head a Bergen County police department.
She was sworn in as the village’s first female police chief in 2016, Luthcke has had a distinguished career with the department, starting as a patrol officer, and then advancing to sergeant, lieutenant, captain and eventually chief.
RHS Class of 1988 ie… Jacqueline Bartlett , she took police test and waited 2 1/2 years to be called up. ( at same time as Hoerst (sp) Chemical Co wanted her for international director of security and Prosecutors office also wanted her. ) She was working as a private investigator and doing executive protection in the meantime. She guarded Christopher Reeves in his first public appearance and the VP of the US at the Baseball Hall Of Fame dinner.
Captain Luthcke started her career with the Ridgewood Police Department in 1996 as a patrol officer advancing to Sergeant in 2005, Lieutenant in 2008 and Captain in 2010. She holds a BA Degree in Sociology/Criminology from Ohio University, where she was graduated with honors. She is a graduate of the West Point Command and Leadership course run by the New Jersey State Association Of Chiefs of Police — graduating first in her class and receiving the Chief Harry Wilde Academic Achievement Award.
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Class Act, sad to see her go.
Time for new blood.
Political job,