Ten New Officers Out of Class of 26 Welcomed at Morris County Correctional Facility
Published on April 01, 2019
Twenty-six men and women were welcomed to careers as corrections officers at their graduation this week from a rigorous 10-week training course at the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy.
Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon and senior command staff at the Morris County Correctional Facility with 10 new corrections officers who graduated April 8 from a rigorous training program.
Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon offered encouragement and congratulations to the new officers who comported themselves with military bearing at the April 8th commencement.
Entrusted to humanely guard inmates and thereby protect society, corrections officers should never forget the victims and survivors behind the crimes, the Sheriff said.
Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon congratulates a new Morris County corrections officer after his graduation from the 18th Basic Course for County Corrections Officers on April 8.
Ten of the 26 graduates will work for the Sheriff's Office at the Morris County Correctional Facility while the 16 other new officers have been hired to work at correctional facilities in Warren, Hunterdon, Hudson, Passaic and Somerset counties.
Officers at the Morris County Correctional Facility see about 3,000 inmates annually. Some have mental health disorders and half suffer from drug addiction.
You may be the only role model, male or female, the inmate has, Sheriff Gannon told the officers.
The 18th Basic Course for County Corrections Officers started with 39 recruits. By the end of 10 weeks of training in physical fitness, criminal law, human behavior, decision-making, first aid, investigative procedures and firearms, 26 people graduated with certifications as corrections officers.
Graduates of the 18th Basic Course for County Corrections Officers at their April 8 commencement from the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy.
The new officers hired by the Morris County Sheriff's Office Bureau of Corrections are: Travis M. Dean, David Frisch, Evan May, Dominick J. Nicastro Jr., Matthew Santangelo, Christopher Smolt, Robert Takacs, Lundrim Veliu, Chelsea Whiting and James H. Woltman Jr.
Officer Frisch achieved the highest grade in the class in effective use of firearms.
Academy Director Daniel H. Colucci, who welcomed the new officers and their families at the April 8th ceremony, is credited with restoring the corrections class program to the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy in Parsippany in 2015.
Saluting the new officers “ and receiving a salute in return - Sheriff Gannon presented the officers with their certificates.
Graduates of the 18th Basic Course for County Corrections Officers at their April 8 commencement from the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy.
Joining the Sheriff at the ceremony were Morris County Freeholder Deborah Smith, Morris County Bureau of Corrections Undersheriff Alan J. Robinson, Warden Chris Klein, Academy Rangemaster Mark Meehan and Training Instructors Paul Carifi Jr. and Jack Ambrose, an East Hanover Township Police Captain.
Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon salutes a new county corrections officer at his commencement April 8 from the 18th Basic Course for County Corrections Officers
Corrections is not an easy job, the Sheriff said. It requires common sense, intelligence, tact, diplomacy, sensitivity, hard work and restraint to deal with some of the more difficult people in our society.
The training you received at the Academy helped prepare you for that. But tap into the knowledge your superiors have. Follow their lead, the Sheriff said.
Of about 64 classes taught in the corrections course, 57 of them are taught by seasoned Morris County Corrections Officers.