Police Training Commission Members as of February 4, 2022

As described in the Police Training Act, N.J.S.A. 52:17B-70 Police Training Commission established; members; terms.

There is hereby established in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety a Police Training Commission whose membership shall consist of the following persons:

A. –
“Two citizens of this State who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of three years commencing with the expiration of the terms of the citizen members,…”.

• James Polos
• Alex Shalom

B. –
The president or other representative designated in accordance with the bylaws of each of the following organizations: the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police; the New Jersey State Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Inc.; the New Jersey State League of Municipalities; the New Jersey State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police; the County Prosecutors’ Association of New Jersey; the Sheriffs’ Association of New Jersey; the Police Academy Directors Association; the New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association; the New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association, and the State Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

• NJ State Association of Chiefs of Police
  • Chief James Abbott
    West Orange Police Department
• NJ State Policemen’s Benevolent Association, Inc.
  • Kevin Lyons
• NJ League of Municipalities
  • Police Director Samuel A. DeMaio,
    Bloomfield Police Department
• NJ State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police
  • Vice Chairman James Sharrock,
    Retired
• County Prosecutors’ Association of New Jersey
  • Prosecutor Angelo Onofri,
    Mercer County Prosecutors’ Office
• Sheriffs’ Association of New Jersey
  • Sheriff Robert Nolan,
    Cape May County Sheriff’s Office
• Police Academy Directors Association
  • Director Daniel Colucci,
    Morris County Police Academy
• New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association
  • Oscar Aviles
• New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association
  • Superintendent Jorge Sandoval,
    Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center
• State Chapter for National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives
  • Jiles Ship,
    President NOBLE NNJ

C. –
The Attorney General, the Superintendent of State Police, the Commissioner of Education, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, the Commissioner of Corrections, and the Chairman of the State Parole Board ex officio, or when so designated by them, their deputies.

• The Attorney General Designee:
  • J. Stephen Ferketic
    Director, Division of Criminal Justice
    Chairman, Police Training Commission
    
• Superintendent of State Police
  • Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, Superintendent
  • Designee:
    Captain Dominigo De Los Santos
    State Police Training Center
• Commissioner of Education
  • Designee:
    James Scarangelli
    Department of Education
• Commissioner of Corrections
  • Designee:
    David Scott, School Director
    Department of Corrections Training Academy
• Chairman of the State Parole Board
  • Samuel Plumeri Jr.

D. –
The Special Agent in Charge of the State of New Jersey for the Federal Bureau of Investigation or his designated representative.

• Designee:
  Special Agent Elisabete Santos