Crime & Safety
Person Apologizes To Bergen Police For Getting Arrested
'You were just doing your job,' the person said in a handwritten note.

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A person apologized to one Bergen County police department for having to arrest them and sent the department a handwritten note saying such.
The person, only identified as T.R., apologized to the arresting Montvale Police officers saying "you were just doing your job."
In a Facebook post Thursday morning, the department said it took a lot of "maturity" and "courage" to leave the note.
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See the Facebook post below:
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Photo: The handwritten note T.R. left for the Montvale Police Department. — Montvale Police Department
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