{"id":7298,"date":"2016-01-07T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2016-01-07T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:19:35","slug":"law-enforcement-bids-farewell-to-brick-ptl-kris-demarco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/law-enforcement-bids-farewell-to-brick-ptl-kris-demarco\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement Bids Farewell to Brick Ptl. Kris Demarco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzgjIaL5XQo?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers from across Ocean County bid farewell Wednesday to Brick Township police officer Kris Demarco, who died last weekend after battling pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Brick police led a procession to the Quinn Hopping Funeral Home in Toms River Wednesday afternoon, where a memorial service was held. At the reorganization meeting of the Ocean County freeholder board on, the chaplain of county law enforcement, <span class=\"st\">Rev. James Occhipinti, recognized Demarco\u2019s service and prayed for his brother, who serves as a county correctional officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Demarco, 38, had been an officer since 2003, having graduated from\u00a0the Ocean County Police Academy Class No. 81.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of his career, Demarco\u00a0was assigned primar<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ily to the midnight shift, where he served as a Field Training Officer. He\u00a0also served the Brick Township Police Department as a background investigator and as an assistant to the department\u2019s Training Unit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Additionally, the department said in a statement, Demarco was a member of the department\u2019s elite\u00a0Special Emergency Response Team since Jan.\u00a02007. He\u00a0was also assigned to the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Special Operations Group from 2009 to 2010.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Demarco\u00a0served the Policeman\u2019s Benevolent Association Local #230 as the Financial Secretary on the PBA\u2019s executive board and he was an active member of numerous charitable committees. Demarco\u00a0earned the Policeman of the Year Award in 2007. He also earned several other awards and Chief\u2019s Certificates during the course of his decorated career which include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Meritorious Service Award<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Grand Cordon Award<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Superstorm Sandy Award<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Douglas C. King Award <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Numerous letters of commendation from the citizens that he served.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/law-enforcement-bids-farewell-to-brick-ptl-kris-demarco\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officers from across Ocean County bid farewell Wednesday to Brick Township police officer Kris Demarco, who died last weekend after battling pancreatic cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[24,1856],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-kris-demarco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-1.17.26-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1TI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}