They - the they as in Politicians - want to fast track the merger - the Police aren't too sad about it but its going to cost the County a lot of $$$, uniforms, and such, Many Correction officers think they are going to be Police officers - not- the County Executive/Freeholders think they will still have a say in the Police Bureau as it will be called - not - once the Sheriff becomes the overall head of the revamped organization , he can do whatever he wants and the freeholders wont have a say
regarding the RID's the numbering of portables for any department using the trunk system the 3rd digit will be a 1. For mobiles 2,7 or 8 the agency is usually the first 2 like Ridgefield 4910502 49 is Ridgefield (towns are programed using the NCIC prefix) 1 portable, 0502 individual ID (502 is a special Officer for them) so if a town like Rutherford shows up on the system the first two id numbers would be 56xxxxx Palisades Park is 45xxxxx which they have....