33 Police Executives Awarded ACE Certification

MARLTON, N.J. - April 10, 2015 - PRLog -- The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police has granted certification status to 33 deserving police executives. Each recently underwent peer reviews conducted by NJSACOP Accredited Chief/Command Executive (ACE) Program and has successfully earned the following designations:

ACE-COP Advanced:
West Orange Chief James Abbott
Plainsboro Chief Guy Armour
Wall Township Chief Robert Brice
Eatontown Chief Michael Goldfarb
Ramsey Chief Bryan Gurney
Mansfield Township Chief Ronald Mulhall, Jr.
Franklin Township Chief Lawrence Roberts
Randolph Township Chief David Stokoe
Ridgewood Chief John Ward
Atlantic City Chief Henry White, Jr.

ACE-COP:
Chief William Brase (Retired)
Wayne Township Chief James Clarke
Egg Harbor Township Chief Raymond Davis
Edgewater Park Township Chief Gene Di Filippo
Paramus Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg
Deptford Township Chief William Hanstein
Lakehurst Chief Eric Higgins

ACE:
Bridgeton Lt. James Battavio
Mount Olive Township Capt. Stephen Beecher
Marlboro Township Lt. Christopher Cherbini
DE River Port Authority Lt. Edward Cobbs, Jr.
West Orange Deputy Chief Michael Corcoran
Jefferson Township Deputy Chief William Craig
Montgomery Township Capt. James Curry
Pequannock Lt. Michael Fairweather
West Windsor Lt. Robert Garofalo
Riverside Township Capt. Hans Jaensch
Atlantic City Deputy Chief William Mazur
Chatham Township Lt. Thomas Miller
Marlboro Township Capt. Peter Pezzullo
Ocean Township Capt. Michael Resetar
Hanover Township Lt. Mark Roddy
Bayonne Capt. Walter Rogers

The NJSACOP ACE Program is a revisiting of the former Certified Chief Law Enforcement Executive Program (CCLEEP) with a new lean towards accrediting the individual police leader and assuring that experience, formal education and management training, continuing education, and collaboration are formally assessed against a recommended standard. The goal is to give surety of merit in our state association’s formal gauging of effective police leadership through a model of peer review.

The NJSACOP ACE Certification Program directly encourages New Jersey's law enforcement executives to attain sanctioned benchmarks in pursuit of a recommended standard for police leadership that are measurable and attainable. By offering proof of these standards to NJSACOP Assessors, individual police leaders can attain NJSACOP Accredited Chief/Command Executive (ACE) Certification Status.

NJSACOP ACE Committee Chair, Chief Mark Spitzer points out the benefits of the program, “ACE is congruent with the state association’s declared philosophy; the Certification Program measures essential proofs in three areas for the ACE and ACE-COP Certification, and in five areas for the ACE-COP Advanced Certification. If it is merited, NJACOP awards individual leadership accredited status based on those appraisals. The ACE Program also promotes and encourages continued education through ACE Re-Certification Program requirements.”

It is the policy of the NJSACOP to promote professional competence, continued education career development among all members of law enforcement and in particularly amongst our leaders. In order to achieve this goal the NJSACOP encourages current, future and retired chiefs and police executives to participate in the ACE Certification Program.

The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) is a professional membership organization serving New Jersey’s law enforcement and private security executives. Our core mission is to promote and enhance the highest ethical and professional standards in law enforcement at all levels throughout New Jersey. For more information on NJSACOP please visit www.NJSACOP.org.