The officers involved with reporting it to state and federal environmental agencies were demoted and reassigned, says a civil action filed on behalf of 21 former Bergen County Police officers.
The plaintiff’s on June 20, 2017 told the county, through their union, that they had rejected a proposal by the county that would do away with the Bergen County Police Bureau of Police Services and make them officers for the sheriff.
In retaliation for rejecting the plan to join the sheriff’s office, the lawsuit says, sheriff Saudino demoted 14 of the plaintiffs, forcing four into early retirement, and terminated five citing budgetary reasons – then hired new officers and promoted existing sheriff’s officers to fill the ranks of the demoted officers.
Frank Carrafiello, the county’s police gun range master, and Mike Devine, the officer in charge of police training, told the director of the Bergen County Law and the Public Safety Institute’s Richard Blohm, that it was time for the EPA-mandated five-year remediation of the outdoor gun range.
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