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Fair Lawn Traffic Unit

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Suspected Chemical Suicide, Dobrow Expansion Plans Top Local Headlines

Other stories include the return of Bennigan's and the borough-wide survey results in Fair Lawn

Police believe a man found dead in his car used a mixture of hydrogen sulfide fumes to end his life. Hazmat and bomb crews were dispatched to 36th Street Monday to ensure the noxious fumes did not endanger nearby residents. The borough doesn't have the cash needed to add baseball and soccer fields to the Dobrow sports complex, so All Sports will be embarking on ways to privately fundraise. The estimated expansion tallies about $1 million. A restaurant owner hopes to breathe life into the location that once housed the Track Side Grille. Bob Piccoli took the first step this week by purchasing the shuttered restaurant's liquor license for $67,500. Fair Lawn survey-takers overwhelmingly supported maintaining current services levels at the …

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Police Resurrect Traffic Safety Unit

For the first time since the police department's traffic safety unit disbanded a couple years ago, two officers have been assigned to dedicated traffic detail.

The Fair Lawn Police Department's Traffic Safety Unit is back, albeit reduced in size and on tenuous terms. The force opened 2013 with two officers whose exclusive focus will be handling traffic issues in town, a detail the department hasn't had the mapower to fill in the past couple years. The two assigned traffic officers, Thomas Check and Louis Failla, have been removed from their 10-man patrol units to focus instead on speeding enforcement, pedestrian safety and providing a regular police presence at district schools. As a result, standard patrol units will now function as nine rather than 10-man crews, Chief Erik Rose said. Rose said he chose to reform the traffic unit now because he has greater scheduling flexibility with virtually …

Concerned

11:50 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

Is this a Monday thru Friday job, weekends off? How come the are not on the road and always sitting in HQ?   more ›

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