Long Branch Penalizes Five Police Officers, Three Supervisors

LONG BRANCH – Public Safety Director Jason Roebuck has penalized five city police officers and their supervisors after an investigation found the officers were sitting in their patrol cars longer than they should have been.

“They should have been driving around their zones, and we found them in violation of our rules and regulations,” Roebuck told app.com.

He declined to release the names of the officers and what their penalties were. All of the officers involved worked the midnight shift.

The investigation began after the department received a letter from a resident complaining that the officers were not doing their jobs, Roebuck said.

“We didn’t find that they weren’t answering their calls. Some of them had been working the midnight shift for a long time and got a little lax,” he said.