More Than Two Dozen N.J. Officers Laid Off

June 27, 2017
More than two dozen officers with the Bergen County Bureau of Police Services turned in their badges Monday after being laid off.

HACKENSACK, New Jersey -- More than two dozen officers with the Bergen County Bureau of Police Services turned in their badges Monday after being laid off.

The 26 officers were told in an email sent Sunday night to report to the Bureau of Criminal Investigations building in Hackensack the following day to turn in their equipment, according to The Record.

"It's unfortunate. They're letting go of a lot of good cops," Dan Sansevere, an eight-year veteran of the force who was laid off, told the newspaper. "A lot of good people that care about this county and want to be here."

Many of the officers and their families met outside the Bergen County Sheriff's Office and then marched five blocks in a group to the investigations building.

Several military veterans are among those cut, including one officer who was about to be deployed overseas when he received his layoff notice several weeks ago.

The layoffs are the culmination of a two-month labor war between the Police Bureau's union and the Bergen County Sheriff's Office.

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