Twenty-Two Correctional Officers Promoted
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. announced the new ranks for the county's correctional officers, including the first married couple in the history of the department to receive promotions at the same time.
Twenty-two Essex County Correctional Facility officers were promoted Thursday at the Department of Corrections Promotion Ceremony in Newark, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. announced. The ceremony took place Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. on the 14th floor of Essex County LeRoy F. Smith, Jr. Public Safety Building, 60 Nelson Place in Newark, according to a press release from the county executive’s office. “Being a Corrections Officer is a demanding job and it takes a person with special qualities and skills to carry out the responsibility of taking care of our inmate population,” DiVincenzo said in a release Friday. "I congratulate our officers on their well-deserved promotions, for working hard and taking on additional responsibility…
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Nzinga Toomer
2:21 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
I am a correction officer.... And the job is demanding and not meant for only a chosen few.... I congratulate my co-workers on their promotions.... And I hope they do the job they have been chosen to do.... To john q pubic..... My question to you is.... If we are doing the job of keeping the streets safe by housing the criminal elements..... Putting our lives in jeopardy..... Risking not coming … more ›