The NJ Police Chief Magazine Volume 24, Number 8 | Page 7

The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | November 2018
From the NJSACOP Meeting Minutes
105 Years Ago – November 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.
90 Years Ago – November 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.”
Chief William Kilfoil (Princeton Borough PD) and
Supt. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (NJ State Police)
This Month in History…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.
President Woodrow Wilson and Chief
Henry Gallagher (Montclair PD)
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
A committee was appointed consisting of Chiefs Keily, Culliton, Forss, O’Neill,
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.”
Chief William O’Neill
East Orange PD
1931
Chief McRell reported on the convention of the Association of Chiefs of Police of Europe, held at Paris last month,
“which he attended and the good and instructive program they had.” He also reported that his participation in this
conference had put the NJSACOP “on the map,” especially “through the hand signal books published by this
association on uniform hand signals, which he left with them.”
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
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