Fair Lawn to Add 3 Police Officers

The borough will swear in three new police officers in January, pending a battery of test results.

Fair Lawn will bring on three new police officers come January in anticipation that multiple retirement-eligible officers call it a career in the next few years. There aren't currently any officers who have announced their intention to retire at year's end, but seven are currently eligible to do so, and 15 will be retirement-eligible by 2015, borough manager Tom Metzler said. "We don’t know if they’re going or not, but I’m extremely concerned that we’re going to be critically low on manpower if we don’t start people in the process," he said at the Oct. 23 council work session, noting that he recommended the hires strictly to maintain not increase force levels beyond the department's 55 existing officers. Unlike the borough's most recent …

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