Montclair's Conforti To Assume Top Cop Post: Female, Black Deputy Chiefs Named

Montclair, NJ – There’s going to be a new chief – er, acting chief – in town, Montclair.

Montclair Township Acting Manager Timothy Stafford announced Wednesday that Deputy Police Chief Todd Conforti will be appointed Acting Chief of Police, effective March 1.

Conforti will replace Police Chief David Sabagh, who will retire from the force February 29.

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DEPUTY CHIEFS

Captain Tracy Frazzano and Lt. Wilhelm Young will be appointed Acting Deputy Chiefs of Police, also effective March 1, township officials stated.

The appointment of female and African-American deputy chiefs are notable; the department has seen allegations of racial imbalance among its supervisors in recent years.

In January of 2014, Sabagh told The Montclair Times that 32 of the department’s 106 staff members were racial minorities, and that 12 of the 106 are female.

Of 31 supervisors, six were minorities and two were female.

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