The Camden police union says the reconfiguration is union-busting and that it would be bad for the public because experienced officers would be replaced with inexperienced ones. full story ![]()

CAMDEN — As a couple members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division walk along Haddon Avenue, Todd Israel pops out of his barbershop to shake the officers' hands.
app.com (21 days ago)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — As a couple members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division walk along Haddon Avenue, Todd Israel pops out of his barbershop to shake the officers' hands.
phillyburbs.com (21 days ago)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — More than 30 members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division will be deployed on the streets of New Jersey's most impoverished city.
phillyburbs.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - More than 30 members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division will be deployed on the streets of New Jersey's most impoverished city.
courierpostonline.com (1 month and 12 days ago)

While Gov. Chris Christie and local officials at the ceremony trumpeted the new Camden County Police Department, a dozen former city officers and their supporters protested outside, resulting in two arrests.
nj.com (19 days ago)

A total of 23 trainees, new recruits of the equally new Camden Police Department, took to Camden for the first time in their capacity as officers to begin their eight-week field training.
nj.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Without a beat to patrol, at least until April, the 15 officers that currently make up the Camden County Police Department are conducting background checks and interviews with prospective police officers.
nj.com (2 months and 13 days ago)
As the new Camden County Police Department officially took over protection of the city Wednesday, Camden City Council approved a pair of resolutions finalizing the transition.
philly.com (19 days ago)
Framing the impending elimination of the police department in predominantly minority Camden, and its replacement with a Camden County-run force, as a "civil rights struggle," the NAACP pledged Tuesday to fight the plan.
philly.com (3 months and 7 days ago)

State and local leadership from the NAACP, as well as several labor unions, took to city hall at Tuesday's council meeting, calling the plan to eliminate the Camden Police Department in favor of a countywide force "unfair and illegal."
nj.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
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