From the NJSACOP Monthly Meeting Minutes
The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | April 2018
20 Years Ago – April 1988 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for April 1988 was held in Somerset , NJ . Chief Anthony Parenti , Traffic Safety Committee Chair , reported that on the following month the “ 65 mph test period will start . The affected highways will be the New Jersey Turnpike , The Garden State Parkway , Atlantic City Expressway , Route 55 , Route 295 , Route 287 North , and Route 195 .”
This month in NJSACOP history ….. April
Chief Anthony Parenti Fanwood PD
1912 At the April 1 , 1912 monthly meeting of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police Chief McClelland introduced a Resolution , which was duly seconded , “ that section 1 , article 2 of the By-laws be changed to read that the regular meeting of the association be held on the 1 st Thursday of each month .” The Resolution carried .
Chief Herbert Wilday
1931 In remarks to the Association during the April 1931 Monthly State Chiefs Meeting , newly elected Association president Chief Herbert Wilday ( Morristown ) urged the membership to “ personally take the time to supervise the Juvenile cases that are brought into your courts for petty offenses and endeavor to settle them outside of Court and thereby prevent them from becoming a matter of record so that the youngsters escape the stigma of a police record .”
1940 As a part of his report at the monthly April 1940 NJSACOP Meeting , Legislative Committee chairman Chief Fred Roff of the Morristown Police Department , reported that the bill , endorsed by the Association , “ making it mandatory that a member of the police or fire departments must have at least three years ’ service before being made chief ” was receiving substantial support .
NJSACOP 26th Anniversary Luncheon April 4 , 1957
1999 During the President ’ s report at monthly NJSACOP Meeting for April 1999 , NJSACOP President Phil Muller ( Sea Isle City ) announced that “ the Executive Board has selected Mitchell C . Sklar for the position of Executive Director .”
Chief Fred Roff Morristown PD
Chief Phil Muller Sea Isle City PD
US Attorney General Sessions Provides Further Support for Local Law Enforcement with Launch of New Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of the Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center ( CRI-TAC ) during the International Association of Chiefs of Police ( IACP ) State Associations of Chiefs of Police ( SACOP ) Division Midyear Conference , conducted in March in Nashville , TN .
This follows the Attorney General ’ s announcement in September of 2017 that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services would shift to better align the program to support local law enforcement consistent with the original intent of the authorizing statute . Consistent with that , the CRI-TAC brings together a coalition of the
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