{"id":12549,"date":"2022-11-14T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2022-11-14T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T03:00:56","slug":"lavallette-appoints-new-police-chief-promotes-supervisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2022\/11\/lavallette-appoints-new-police-chief-promotes-supervisors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Appoints New Police Chief, Promotes Supervisors"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Police<\/a>

Police Chief Christian LaCicero, Mayor Walter LaCicero, and their family as Christian LaCicero is sworn in as Lavallette police chief, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lavallette has filled the vacancy left by former Police Chief Colin Grant, with the borough council approving the appointment of Christian LaCicero, 37, to lead the department.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had two applicants who both qualified by civil service examination,\u201d said Councilwoman Joanne Filippone. \u201cThe five voting members of the council held interviews on both candidates \u2013 the questions were identical and asked in the exact same order.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>

New Police Chief Christian LaCicero is administered the oath of office, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

LaCicero, the son of Mayor Walter LaCicero \u2013 himself a retired police officer in the borough \u2013 was considered along with Sgt. Justin Lamb. The elder LaCicero does not cast votes at council meetings in his capacity as mayor except in cases of a tie-breaker, and Councilman Robert Lamb was precluded from participating in the hiring process since Justin Lamb, who serves as an elected councilman in Toms River, is his son. The five council members without conflicts voted unanimously to approve the appointment.<\/p>\n

LaCicero began working as a special police officer in Lavallette in 2002, eventually moving from a Class I special officer to a Class II special officer. He was hired as a full-time sworn officer in 2005, and was promoted to sergeant in Jan. 2014 after nine years of service.<\/p>\n

Grant retired from the chief\u2019s position in May, at which point the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office assumed command of the department. The prosecutor\u2019s office is still supervising the department for the time being, said Borough Administrator John O. Bennett, despite a new chief having been appointed. The county agency announced at the time that it would conduct a \u201ccomprehensive evaluation\u201d of the department and handle internal affairs matters to ensure an appropriate level of supervision.<\/p>\n

Bennett said LaCicero\u2019s salary has not yet been decided. He will continue earning his salary based on his previous rank, a sergeant, until a number is determined, at which point he will receive accrued pay.<\/p>\n

\"Sgt.<\/a>

Sgt. Frank White is sworn into his position, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sgt.<\/a>

Sgt. Mike Monica is sworn into his position, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ptl.<\/a>

Ptl. Justin Ruppert is sworn into his position, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The department also promoted officers and hired a new full-time patrolman.<\/p>\n

Officer Frank White, who had been serving as an interim sergeant since 2018, was officially sworn in to the position Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s waited a long time to make this permanent and final,\u201d said Filippone.<\/p>\n

\"Lavallette<\/a>

Lavallette officials and newly promoted and hired police officers, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Officer Mike Monica, who has been a patrolman since 2005, was also promoted to sergeant. The borough also swore in a new officer, Ptl. Justin Ruppert, who worked in Lavallette as a special officer before being hired full-time by the Brick Township Police Department. He will now return to Lavallette full-time.<\/p>\n

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Lavallette has filled the vacancy left by former Police Chief Colin Grant, with the borough council approving the appointment of Christian LaCicero, 37, to lead the department. \u201cWe had two applicants who both qualified by civil service examination,\u201d said Councilwoman Joanne Filippone. \u201cThe five voting members of the council held interviews on both candidates \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"#Lavallette #NJ Selects New #Police Chief, Promotes Supervisors","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2,8],"tags":[2307,2164,1959,2309,29,2311,2308,2165,2310],"class_list":["post-12549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","category-police-fire-courts","tag-christian-lacicero","tag-colin-grant","tag-featured","tag-frank-white","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-lavallette-police-department","tag-mike-monica","tag-police-chief","tag-walter-lacicero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lavallette_police_promotion_681-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-3gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}