Brick Police Officers Graduate Police Academy

(Patrolman Jeffrey Melia, Patrolman Michael DeMaio, Chief Nils R. Bergquist, Patrolman Michael Dinnebeil, and Patrolman Daniel Testa at the Ocean County Police Academy graduation Tuesday. Photo courtesy Brick Township Police Department Facebook page)

Four Brick Township police officers have completed their training at the Ocean County Police Academy and were feted at graduation ceremonies Tuesday in Lakewood.

Patrolmen Jeffrey Melia, Michael DeMaio, Michael Dinnebeil and Daniel Testa all received their certificates at the ceremony, according to the Brick Township Police Department’s Facebook page.

The four were sworn in as probationary officers in late July and have been attending the academy since August.

DeMaio, 30, has been a corrections officer for the Monmouth County Corrections Office for three years and is a member of its emergency response team. He is a 2002 graduate of Brick Township High School and attended Ocean County College, Rutgers University and Kean University, and has an associate’s degree. He is a Marine Corps veteran and served in Iraq in 2005 before being honorably discharged in 2006. His father, Vincent, is a retired Hillside police officer, and Michael will be joining his brother, Anthony, who is a Brick Township police officer.

Testa, 33, is an Army National Guard veteran and served two deployments in Iraq before receving an honorable discharge in 2009. He is a 1999 graduate of A.L. Johnson High School in Clark. He has worked for T-Mobile USA as a network operations technician. He and his wife, Karina, have two sons, Matthew, 6, and Daniel, 4.

Melia, 25, is a Marine Corps veteran and served in Afghanistan before being honorably discharged in 2013. He is a 2008 graduate of Brick Township High School and lives with his parents, Dennis and Anne. He previously worked security for Jenkinson’s Pavilion in Point Pleasant Beach.

Dinnebeil, 29, was a Special Class II police officer with the Seaside Heights Police Department from 2009 to 2013. He is a 2003 graduate of Toms River High School North and attended Richard Stocktonh College in Galloway. He had been an assistant manager at Jenkinson’s South in Point Pleasant Beach before being hired by Brick.

Check out more photos from the ceremony on the department’s Facebook page.