From the NJSACOP Monthly Meeting Minutes
Woodrow Wilson
The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | November 2017
105 Years Ago – November 1912 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for November 1912 was held in Perth Amboy , NJ . It was regularly moved and seconded that
We tender our services to Pres . -Elect Wilson , as a guard of honor on the day of his inauguration at Washington , members to be in full uniform , a committee consisting of Chiefs Monahan , Keily , and Gallagher to be appointed with power to make the necessary arrangements , resolution carried .
85 Years Ago – November 1932 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for November 1932 was held in Newark , NJ . The regular order of business was suspended “ and dispensed with to usher Dr . Gluckman of Newark , N . J . into the meeting .” Dr . Gluckman addressed the members on the subject of health , “ stressing the importance of healthy men giving the maximum efficiency to a police department , and advocating specialists in the examination of policemen periodically .”
10 Years Ago – November 2007 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for November 2007 was held at Ft . Monmouth . Chief Eric Mason , chairman of the NJSACOP Command & Leadership Program , announced the first event of the new NJSACOP C & L Alumni Association , which would feature a presentation by the Department Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U . S . Military Academy at West Point .
Chief Henry Gallagher Montclair PD
This month in NJSACOP history ….. NOVEMBER
Chief Eric Mason Cranford PD
Chief William Kilfoil Princeton Boro PD
1913 Chief Kilfoil extended an invitation to all members of the Association to attend the Yale-Princeton football game to be held at Princeton . It was regularly moved , seconded and adopted that Chief Kilfoil ’ s invitation be accepted .
1924 Chief Dolan spoke on the “ various ways and mean of the smaller towns in handling of the heavier Sunday traffic ”
So that it is held up causing blocks and drivers taking chances to get to the head of lines and in some cases where two and possibly three lines can be made they are kept to just one line each way and if members know of these conditions in these towns .
Chief Patrick Dolan ( Hudson Co . PD ), Chief John Forss ( Garfield PD ) and Chief William O ’ Neill ( East Orange PD )
A committee was appointed consisting of Chiefs Keily , Culliton , Forss , O ’ Neil , and Siccardi to “ adopt a standard of traffic signals , turning , where Officers are stationed and the speeding up of heavy traffic .”
At that same meeting , representatives from the Polton Brothers Company of New York City made a presentation to the members on “ different styles of clubs and bombs as well as a spray system to overcome criminals who are dangerous so [ there is ] no danger to the Officer in making an arrest .”
H . Norman Schwarzkopf Supt ., NJ State Police
1928 A Resolution was adopted stating that “ H . Norman Schwarzkopf be accepted as a member of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police , such membership to continue as long as the said H . Norman Schwarzkopf remains Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police .”
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