By Jonathan Weber
Eatontown — The Eatontown Police Department added one new police officer and promoted three others in ceremonies before the Eatontown Borough Council. The promotions and hiring were a result of recent retirements from the force.
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Former Eatontown Dispatcher Kenneth Errickson is now Patrolman Errickson as he gets his new badge pinned on. He is a graduate of Jersey City University with a bachelor of arts in criminal justice and accumulated a grade point average of 3.91. He started his law enforcement career as a special officer in Monmouth Beach, and then moved on to the Sea Bright as a dispatcher.
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Sergeant Edward Nelson is shown here getting his new badge pinned on by his girlfriend, Tabatha Vincent. Sgt. Nelson graduated from Temple University as an algebra teacher. In December 2000, he graduated from the Monmouth County Police Academy. In 2001 he joined the Eatontown Police Department and became a parole officer. In 2006 he was assigned to the Detective Bureau where he was assigned many major criminal cases in the Borough and recently was honored for capturing a serial bank robber.
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Officer Theresa Healy becomes the first woman police sergeant on the force. Her first job in law enforcement was with the Monmouth University Police Department. In 2004 she joined Eatontown and became the town’s Juvenile Officer. She is Vice-President of the Monmouth County Juvenile Officers Association and Vice-President of the Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 305. She has a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College and is pursuing her master’s degree.
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Kenneth S. Kleinman, shown here being sworn in, was promoted from Sergeant to Lieutenant. Lt. Kleinman started out with the Conrail Police Force in 1978. He is a graduate of the Bergen County Police Academy and began working in Eatontown in 1986. He was transferred to the Detective Bureau in 2004 and was promoted to Sergeant and Manager of Information Technology in 2007. He successfully obtained a $100,000 grant for an Automatic License Plate Reader and the Borough became the first Police force in the County to have such technology.
Originally published Dec. 15, 2011