End the county. Not just the PD, but all of it already. What a waste of money!

a double dipping County Executive lied to the voters and said she would bring smaller government. She lied. This is an outrage, she led everyone on that she was going to bring smaller government. This is an outrage. Many many many people are going to be calling for a RECALL against Donovan. RECALL NOW.

Saudino should have just let Marcus appoint his own undersheriffs and this would have never been an issue.

i agree with the Sheriff. Put it to the ballot vote and let the people decide if they want County Police Dept. SEems pretty simple to me! Personally i have no idea why we need both sheriff and county police. I just dont know.

Typical county operation: spend $623,000 on a study; ignore findings.

And please forgive my ignorance, but what qualifies Mr. Creamer to chair the committee? I don't see how a business owner is more qualified than a retired police chief from Jersey City, a police commissioner, a superior court judge, or even a freeholder.

Maybe it should be on the ballot for the people to decide to merge, not eliminate the Bergen County Police but place it under control of the Bergen County Sheriffs Office as a division with current contracts and grade, which is the only Law Enforcement that is Constitutional Department along with the Prosecutor. There is only one or two County Police Departments in the State. I find it insulting to the taxpayer that only one police officer was on the committee, which sounds like all political appointments. Im surprised Judge Meehan would ethically compromise his integrity by participating. On the ballot should also be the elimination of the County Executive because we have a full time administrator to run the County for the Freeholders which does and excellent job. As time passes, people retire and the merge will have less impact and won't be an issue after a period of time and will have more positive impact for the taxpayer. Bergen County Police do an excellent job, but are blemished by politicians trying to squeeze municipalities to merge so they exist. In Paramus, at a public council meeting the Mayor acknowledged that Bergen County offered to Patrol Paramus Too. The merge must happen at the top before doing micro merge mentality. As a result people in Paramus and the rest of the County are paying for the savings while Bergen County Police patrol Teterboro. I am a registered Republican and say bad move Donovan you are playing a shell game with Public Safety.

How about put the sherriff under the County Police ?

NJ needs fewer political appointments in general. There's a Tammany Hall type political model that could use changing; instead of putting people in positions because they worked on someone's campaign, wouldn't it be good to put someone in position because they are good at it?

Can someone tell me why we have so many police departments all doing the same thing?

Local town police, county police and state police...how many levels of protection do we really need?

Of cours we don't need all those police departments. But there are dozens if not hundreds of very highly paid chiefs, captains, lieutenants, sheriffs etc. who bulldoze and scare the public into thinking this is the only way. It's a very wasteful system and, along with the school supt scam, the main reason for our outrageous taxes.

I have an idea for cutting County spending! Eliminate 4 political appointments - the undersheriffs. It would save over half a million dollars, salaries, cars, perks, benefits, etc.

We should get rid of all police departments and let state police do what it should do in the first place. The police officers should not loose their jobs and they should become part of a bigger state police. Any extra man power can be handled by attrition and putting a hiring freeze until we obtain required man count.

Same goes for all other town/county departments like board of education, health departments and human resources. The savings should be given back to the tax payers.

Chairman J. Fletcher Creamer, Jr., probably missed the fact that the Sheriff is the only constitutional post...elected by the citizens. Will the Fletcher Creamer company be submitting bids for future construction of buildings/facilities if towns merge with the county police?...just curious.

"We found a lot of duplication in the departments, and the departments not working together," Bader said. - Doesn't that sound like a characteristic common to many police departments across Bergen County.

Executive Donovan is doing her job. Looking at all the facts. What happens if the Sheriff's office took over? Would that department be an option for future municipal consolidation, if a town was looking for one? The County police probably has the organization, with a little work, to be a Countywide department. The Sheriff's office and/or Saudino doesn't inspire that opportunity as a possibility.

Rumor has it...County PD Chief, Higgins has been going around to these small towns in the county, approaching council and giving them this option. If your police manpower falls below what it should be on any day because of vacations, guys calling in sick...whatever the reason may be. To avoid overtime by calling in a borough police officer, I will give you a cop-for-a-day. How back-handed it that!?!?!!!. WHAT A SNAKE. The respective Police Locals would never let that happen. I used to respect you Higgins , not no more. Now you're just a political snake.

Here is a better idea, end the county pd, return the money to the towns and pocket the savings. After what the county did to Teterboro's policing plan, don't expect to see cooperation between towns, butmutual aide works with fire and ambulance, it does with police too.

Way to much government and law enforcement
Get rid of county government and those freeholders
Consolidate county and sheriff depts.
And above all get rid of Donovan--she acts like a dictator--get rid of her, her staff.,her limo, and save the taxpayers money