Gloucester Township leaders vow to keep police local. Some still have concerns.
Camden County freeholders' plan to implement a countywide police force has dominated political discussion throughout the area for nearly two years now. The discussion has become particularly heated in recent weeks as a county-run police force to patrol Camden City, dubbed the Metro Division, seemingly inches to fruition. In Gloucester Township, the story has been no different despite elected leaders' repeated statements over the past 12 months or so in support of maintaining a local police force. The topic was one of the main issues of contention leading up to the 2011 Council election, as Republican challengers questioned Democratic incumbents' commitment to local policing. Gloucester Township Republican Municipal Committee Chairman Ray …
The Gloucester Township Council president indicates he will not welcome a Camden County police force in the township.
Lost—or perhaps even completely missed by most—in the noise about competing pay-to-play ordinances and a Green Team conspiracy theory Monday night was Gloucester Township Council President Glen Bianchini's strongest statement of support for maintaining a township police force to date. The statement came following a comment by Valleybrook resident Darren Gladden regarding shared services, including for fire, ambulance and police coverage. "I don't believe in the countywide police, and you won't see them here in Gloucester Township," Bianchini said. Republicans were critical of Bianchini and his running mates for what they considered the Democrats' lukewarm support of the Gloucester Township Police Department as talks of the countywide …
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Concerned voter
9:03 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
I understand everyone's concern with this county police. Believe me when it does happen all towns will be joining. If you don't believe it all you have to do is look at the Lakeland complex, Gloucester twp was forced to take over patrol duties that the county has provided forever. I do mean forced, they will of course put the spin on it of the park police are under manned and can't handle it any … more ›