Prosecutor's Office offering three-day gang awareness training
MORRISTOWN: Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi, Esq., Chief William Schievella and the Prosecutor's Office Intelligence Crime Task Force Unit will be offering a three-day training program to provide both law enforcement and non-law enforcement professionals with valuable training on gang activity and awareness.
The Gang Recognition and Awareness Seminar as well as the Gang Prevention and Intervention class will be held at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dreyfuss Building, 285 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ.
The seminar will be divided up with the first day, June 15, geared to non-law enforcement professionals and day two and three on June 16 and 17 will strictly be limited to law enforcement.
The training will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each of the scheduled days at the campus and attendance is by R.S.V.P. only.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi said, "I am pleased to partner with the New Jersey Gang Investigators Association and Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Park-Madison campus to offer this free training program. It is important to reach out beyond our law enforcement community and open the doors to those professionals in education, the private sector, public safety, security, and our mental health counselors and medical care providers to provide this important training. The curriculum will include the most up-to-date information about street gangs operating throughout New Jersey with our prime focus on Morris County.
"Our goal is to stop gang involvement and provide a lesson plan to help civilians identify gang activity and show other professionals how to identify gang involvement in order to report and prevent such activity in our area.
"This is both an educational and preventive forum. We are aggressively educating all levels of government and the public -- our eyes and ears in the community -- so that Morris County can proactively stay ahead of the curve to ensure the county remains a safe place to live and so that our children do not fall prey to the underbelly of gang life."
Anyone who may have an interest may contact the Morris County Prosecutor's Office Intelligence Crime Task Force for screening at (973) 631-5335. Law Enforcement Identification is required for the 6/16 and 6/17 program and you must be previously registered for the 6/15/09 program. Seating is limited.
Prosecutor's Office staff receive recognition
NEW BRUNSWICK: On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, two members of the Morris County Prosecutor's Office were honored at Rutgers University in New Brunswick for their work with New Jersey Women in Law Enforcement (NJWLE).
Chief of Investigations William Schievella and Detective Keisha Higgs of the Community Affairs Unit received the awards.
Pictured above from left to right: Chief William Schievella, Detective Keisha Higgs, Major Wendy Galloway of the New Jersey State Police and Chief Karen Sullivan of the Interlaken Police Department.
Media Contact: Agent William Swayze, 973-285-6200
Child safety the focus of program Saturday at Rockaway Townsquare mall
Morristown: Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi, Esq., Chief William Schievella and the prosecutor's Community Affairs Unit will be offering an all-day program designed to keep our children safe.
The program will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rockaway Townsquare mall in Rockaway Township.
The prosecutor's office has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Office of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and Amber Ready to sponsor the event.
Parents will be able to have their children fingerprinted and photographed -- a key tool to assist law enforcement officers in the tragic event of an abduction. There will also be a hands-on demonstration of self defense techniques. Educational handouts will be available.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi, Esq. said, "Nothing is more important than the safety and security of our children. This community affairs project will bring together experts in the field of child and infant abduction as well as experts on sexual predator behavior.
"It is our common goal to provide education and awareness to parents, guardians, care providers and children so that we together as a community can keep our children safe.
"This is one of many programs the Morris County Prosecutor's Office, in conjunction with our partners, has created to protect our youth from persons intent on harming them. By working together we are stronger and better able to protect our community.
"I am in heartened by our continued partnership with Jiles Ship, president of NOBLE's Northern Jersey Chapter. He consistently demonstrates the best that law enforcement has to provide, always attending and supporting our law enforcement endeavors, especially those that focus on the safety of our children."
"Also joining us will be Alan J. Robinson, the Project ALERT representative for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He is the Director of Protection and Security Services for Atlantic Health.
"He has trained over 2,000 parents and law enforcement officers in child and infant abduction and sexual predator behavior. He is a national speaker for the Federal Bureau of Investigation on child abduction, kidnapping and sexual exploitation prevention. He has taught throughout New Jersey in police academies as well as the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey.
Detective Keisha Higgs, from the prosecutor's community affairs unit, is coordinating the program that goes hand-in-hand with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Take 25 National Child Safety Campaign, which encourages parents and guardians to talk to their children about safety. There are an estimated 2,200 children reported missing every day. One in about six missing children is recovered because someone recognized the child's photograph on a publication produced by the national center."
For more information, please call Detective Keisha Higgs at (973) 285-6200.