Galloway Police Promote One to Sergeant, One to Corporal
The promotions were made possible due to over $1 million in savings due to the retirement of five senior officers.
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The Galloway Township Police Department will restore one sergeant and one corporal after five ranking officers left the department on Jan. 1, Police Chief Patrick Moran announced Tuesday night, Jan. 22.
Chris McGinty was promoted to the position of corporal and Mark D’Esposito was promoted to sergeant. According to Moran, the ability to go through with the promotions was made possible by over $ 1 million in savings due to the retirement of the five officers. McGinty and D’Esposito will each receive a raise, which will increase the budget by about $17,000.
Officially, the township provided enough money for the police department to hire one new officer, but Moran felt the need to have supervision was too strong.
“We need to have supervision,” Moran said. “In 2012, we handled 39,062 calls for service. Back when we had 74 officers, we handled 31,000 calls for service, and with the type of calls we’re handling now and all the paperwork, we need supervision to ensure we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. As the department shrinks, we need supervisors.”
Lt. Tom Davey, Lt. Paul Dooner, Sgt. Troy Midgette, Cpl. Mike Goldberg, and Cpl. Harvey Bird all retired as of Jan. 1. The retirements saved the jobs of the five most junior officers, who would have been laid off due to budget constraints. The retirements of those five senior officers left the department with one chief, one captain, five sergeants and four corporals. The department has 48 officers.
Moran said the supervisory positions are necessary due to the 24 hours a day, seven days a week nature of the job.
The announcement of the promotions was made at the council meeting Tuesday night, after township council recognized employees for their long-term commitment to the township.
McGinty was among those honored, for his 10 years of service to the township. The others included:
Melinda Ade, Jack Bowden and Thomas Davey, for 25 years; Raymond Casanova, for 20 years; Ron Schreiber and Jody Smith for 15 years; and William Ade, Justin Butler, Gary Dooner Sr., Donna Higbee, Kevin Jorgensen, William Kline, Pamela Lewis, Hiram Melendez and Kevin Welsh for 10 years.
McGinty’s father was a cop, and he paid his own way through the Cape May County Police Academy. He graduated from Absegami High School and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and joined the force in 2002. He served five years as an officer and five years as a detective. He founded the police department’s color guard.
D’Esposito also graduated from Stockton. He became a police officer in Stone Harbor in 2003, and joined the Galloway Police Department in 2004. He became a patrolman after one month, and is part of the K-9 unit. His K-9 is cross-trained for narcotics detection. D’Esposito has won numerous K-9 competitions.
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Andrew
9:23 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The dept doesn't have 59 officers it currently has 48 total officers in the dept
Patrick Moran
4:28 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
there are 48 officers total, this includes the 14 Supervisors/Admin.
Patrick Moran
7:24 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Hi Anthony;
I know there was a lot going on last night and we were interupted so im not sure exactly what I said but I would like to add to correct the quote, "As the department shrinks,we need supervisors" What I meant to say was, "Even as the department shrinks, we still need supervisors" and I will expand on that. Street level supervisors are extremely important to ensure that what the officers are doing is consistent with law and policy. They are the first supervisors on the scenes at all hours of the day and night ensuring what needs to get done does. Additionally, the street level supervisors also answer calls while managing and supervising. Some added info, as the PD has shrunk, so has the Administration and Supervision, at one point when we had 74 officers, this department had 24 Admin/Supervisors. Last year we started out with 54 officers with 19 officers in Admin and supervision. We lost 5 supervisory and admin positions and even though there were two promotions, we only replaced 1 of those positions, we now have 14 Admin/Supervisors. The savings from the retirements, reduction in pension, health care, and contractual savings, which is well over 1 million dollars was actually offset between 17-$18,000 with the promotions. Again, I thank the Manager, the Mayor, and Council for the support and seeing the importance of this position.
galloway7757
4:13 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Chief Moran,
Are there 11 supervisors remaining as the article states? Or are there 14 supervisors remaining as you state? There seems to be a conflict on this.
Patrick Moran
4:38 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
There are 14 Supervisors/Admin. 3 Admin (Chief, Capt, Lt) 11 Supervisors (6 Sgts and 5 Cpls for Admin Bureau, Invest, and 4 patrol squads)
Shawn G
7:58 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
74 to 48 officers with an 8,000 call increase is not sustainable. To me that seems like a public safety nightmare! Maybe its time for me and other law abiding citizens to move before it really gets bad.
Ronald S.
11:09 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
When does the spending stop? The question no one is asking- was this necessary? This township is in the worst financial crisis in the county, yet there are promotions? This township just laid off employees a little more than a month ago. Five officers retired due to the fact they were threatened with being demoted-and now less than a month later, they have promotions? Doesn't make much sense, however nothing ever does in this township. Everyone is supposed to be doing more with less, so again I ask this question-was this move necessary? The wasteful spending will never stop. The township will probably later realize they couldn't really afford this and threaten layoffs once again. That sounds more like it.
Patrick Moran
4:26 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Yes, it was necessary; this is not wasteful spending. Supervision is necessary and lack of supervision is one of the most common types of litigation. Additionally, the Township is required to pay "out of title pay", which is contractual. It means they would have to pay for the supervision regardless. As I said before there has been a significant savings from all of the aforementioned reasons, and we are doing way more with less (35% drop in staff, while expecting to handle an est 28% increase in calls)but there is a limit to how far you can push that and there is a minimum cost for operating an efficient and effective PD. I am sorry I disagree with your point of view.
Shawn G
5:00 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Ronald how is a 35% reduction in force and 25% increase is calls not, more with less. Your question should be when does the cutting stop!
Ronald S.
6:27 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Shawn, I agree with the reduction in force. I feel the focus and concentration should be on backfilling some positions before worrying about promotions. That overall number of officers continues to dwindle and no one is mentioning that. Galloway has been notorious for spending today and thinking about it tomorrow. Just makes you think...
Patrick Moran
11:41 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Ron, just a reminder... Hiring an officer is not an option at this time. Salary, benefits, and pension for one officer is way more than the promotion.
It should also be noted that the Township would be paying for the positions/salaries that the officers were promoted to due to contractual "out of title" pay any way and the positions are needed.
Lastly, the fact that we need officers has been brought up,noted,and considered; we are bound by budget. In the past we hired to backfill after being told the budget would support it, only to find out it had a negative impact on the following year's budget. I can assure you that we are looking at creating a strategic plan to help improve our operation and plan for the future but hiring now would not be prudent.
John Johnson
7:38 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
Shaw, I agree with you 100%, but one has to ask if they forced out supervisors on the threat of demotions, why would they promote. From the outside looking in it seems as if the Twp wanted to promote who they want. But then again this is Galloway.
Patrick Moran
9:35 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
6 supervisors left and we only back filled 1 position. The department still has to operate and there still has to be supervision. Also remember that the township would have to pay out of title pay for the positions anyway. The pd is a 24-7 operation and supervision is necessary 24-7. There is no hidden conspiracy.
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