March 2026 | The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine 8
1953 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for March 1953 was held at City Hall in Maplewood, NJ. The Membership engaged in a discussion regarding recruitment and hiring of new police officers. Chief McGinty“ stated that Police were having trouble in recruiting men because labor and industry were making more attractive wage proposals to them. He stated that we should return to the requirements of Pre-war for police and pay a living salary to them.”
1956 The Acting Director of the State Bureau of Traffic Safety, Leo R. Welch, thanked the Association“ for the fine cooperation received from us” during that year’ s Holiday Safety Campaign. Mr. Welch stated that
There had been a recorded decrease in traffic deaths during the Holiday period and throughout 1955 and the leadership and cooperation of the Police Chiefs was a vital factor in achieving New Jersey’ s present standing, which is in sharp contrast to the general increase of traffic deaths recorded throughout the Nation.
1965 The NJSACOP Monthly State Chiefs Meeting for March 1965 was held at the Hotel Arnold in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. The President read a communication from Leo Welch, the Acting Director of the NJ Bureau of Traffic Safety, thanking the Association“ for the fine cooperation received from us” through the 1965 holiday safety campaign. Mr. Welch also stated that the“ cooperation of the Police Chiefs was a vital factor in achieving New Jersey’ s present standing which is in sharp contrast to the general increase in traffic deaths recorded throughout the Nation.”
1971
Chief Benjamin Dungan
The March 4 th edition of the Camden Courier Post covered that day’ s graduation of the“ fourth Management Seminar of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police,” which took place at the Nassau Inn in Princeton. The article noted that graduates included Evesham Township Chief Joseph Leedom, Florence Police Chief John Masiko, Chief Theodore Mitchell of Washington Township, Morris Township Chief Benjamin Rideout, Medford Chief Ernest Seth, Chief Thomas Connell of Mantua, Ocean City Chief Benjamin Dungan, Chief Thomas Dwyer of Pennsville, Somers Point Chief Charles Gray, Chief Roger Irelan of Pitman, Salem Chief George Johnson, and Woodbury Chief Dean Kimmel.
Chief Ernest Seth