The NJ Police Chief Magazine Volume 26, Number 5 | Page 6

The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | January 2020
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT
MITCHELL C. SKLAR
108 Years of Service—and Counting
Each month in our New Jersey Police Chief Magazine, we dig into our Association’s archives
to publish highlights from our organization’s history stretching back to the very beginning in
the early years of the 20 th century, right up to recent times. I hope that you take the time
to read these highlights each month (as well as take a look at the vintage photos). Not only
is reading these highlights interesting and enjoyable, but they also offer a look into where
we have been, both as an organization and a profession. They reveal how our Chiefs and
our Association have from the very start taken the lead in addressing the issues facing policing in our state, and
just what an important role we have always played in moving our profession forward.
In reading through these articles each month, it is also clear that, again from the very start, the NJSACOP has
also been an important resource for our members and their agencies, as well as for our state government. What
also comes through these minutes from across the decades is the importance for chiefs to attend our monthly
NJSACOP Police Chiefs Briefings. The information, the networking, and the mutual assistance that our members
receive each month is a priceless benefit of membership, and absolutely worth the small commitment of time
required each month. Putting these monthly meetings in your diary shouldn’t be all that difficult either – they are
held the first Thursday of every month (except July and August), as they have been every year since 1912.
No doubt the new year will bring new (and on-going) challenges for our members, our profession, and our
Association. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and together as an Association we will meet those
challenges and continue to serve and lead “the greatest Police Chiefs Association in the United States.”
Mitchell C. Sklar, Esq.
NJSACOP Executive Director
The NJSACOP sends its sincerest
condolences to the family of
Chief Edward Zloty
Retired Life Member
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