Manchester Police Authorized to Patrol Cedar Glen Lakes

are now authorized to regulate the roadways of Cedar Glen Lakes, a private retirement community located in Whiting. 

The owners of the neighborhood filed written request with the township asking that Manchester police officers patrol the neighborhood to help deal with traffic enforcement, said council president Craig Wallis.

"They've asked us — because they've got speeders, they've got people running stop signs — to go in there and help enforce," he said. "This gives us the power to go in there and patrol for this type of thing, where normally we couldn't go into a private community and do that."

Police patrols through the private development, which are allowed by New Jersey law under Title 39, should not be a burden to the police department, Wallis said,

"We'll have officers riding through there as part of their regular patrol," Wallis said. "It is going to take time, but their concern is that someone is going to get hurt."

Even though it is a private community, Cedar Glen Lakes will not pay for the police patrols, Wallis said.

"They should be entitled to the same thing as everyone else," he said.

Cedar Glen Lakes is not the first private community in Manchester to allow township police to patrol neighborhood streets. In August a similar agreement was approved by the council with the Ridgeway Mobile Homes Park.