Chris Doyle Becomes the Galloway Police Department's Newest Captain

The promotion of Chris Doyle from lieutenant to the rank of captain was done so to keep up with an evolving police department, Galloway Police Chief Patrick Moran said following the council meeting on Tuesday night, May 14.

“We’re expecting retirements over the next several years, and we need to move people into key positions,” Moran said.

Doyle becomes the second captain on the force, along with Allan Kane. In January, Chris McGinty was promoted to the position of corporal and Mark D’Esposito was promoted to sergeant. Doyle’s promotion leaves the department with a vacant lieutenant’s position that Moran said would not be filled. There are no lieutenants on the force.

There are six sergeants and five corporals currently on the force.

Doyle will make about $120,000, which is a senior lieutenant’s salary. The typical salary for a captain is almost $127,000.

“He’s taking this position to help the department move forward, but with all the budget problems, he wants to ensure the township can afford this,” Moran said.

In December of last year, two lieutenants, two corporals and a sergeant retired, in effect preventing five junior officers from being laid off.

Doyle graduated from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1992, and in 1993, he graduated from the Gloucester County Police Academy. His first job was for the Division of Gaming Enforcement in Atlantic City.

He began working in Galloway in 1995, and was assigned to the detective bureau in 1998. He was promoted to the rank of corporal in 2003, and sergeant in 2005. He became the commander of the Atlantic County SWAT team, District 2 in 2007.

He was promoted to lieutenant in 2011. He also works in the Galloway Township School District as a member of the Safe School Committee.