Your Neighbors Now Know A Lot More About the Police

No, they can’t arrest you. But these 24 South Brunswick residents now know a lot more about the behind-the-scenes work of policing.

Twenty four residents graduated from the South Brunswick Citizen Police Academy Tuesday night. The ceremony, held at the South Brunswick Senior Center, was the culmination of 10 weeks of study.

The program offered a behind-the-scenes look at policing taught by South Brunswick police officers. The students were given hands-on-training on how police process crime scenes, including photographing and dusting for prints. They sat in a police chase driving simulator and received firsthand perspective on emergency and pursuit driving. They were also taught how to respond to a domestic violence situation and how to give First Aid.

“So often we see in the news divisive police-community relations,” says South Brunswick Chief of Police Raymond Hayducka. ”In South Brunswick it is the partnership with residents that make us effective.”

The Fall 2015 South Brunswick Citizen Police Academy graduates are:

Renu Advani

Mahesh Advani

Ibrahim Awwad

Candice Cabel-Dlugosz

Gustave Dubiner

David Hoyt

Philip Jaccoma

Christopher Johnson

Hema Kakar

Loi Tien Lim

Daniel Mandell

Parthasarathi Milikarjun

Patricia Mulroy

Colt Murphy

Ravi Motwani

Shirish Naik

Rey Ordiales

Deven Patel

Shreekant Pujari

Jerry Reifsnyder

Sanjay Sanyal

Aman Tomar

S. Venkatakrishnan

Dominick Vozzo

The graduation marks the first class held by the police department in over five years.