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Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Builds Healthier Minds, Bodies With 6-Week Wellness Program Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Builds Healthier Minds, Bodies With 6-Week Wellness Program
Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Builds Healthier Minds, Bodies With 6-Week Wellness Program Chief Detective Jason Love of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office sits on a bike in the back of the air-conditioned spinning studio at Equinox Paramus. His deputies, detectives and even clerks, fill the rows in front of him. The law enforcement agents quietly chatter among themselves, waiting for their spinning instructor, Paramus Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti, to start the ride. The BCPO employees decided to take the class together in participation of the BCPO's Six Weeks of Wellness Program. The program has been running in various prosecutors offices across New Jersey, but is in …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Fit Cops: K9 Officer Gains Mental Fortitude At Paramus CrossFit Gym Fit Cops: K9 Officer Gains Mental Fortitude At Paramus CrossFit Gym
Fit Cops: K9 Officer Gains Mental Fortitude At Paramus CrossFit Gym PARAMUS, N.J. -- Watching Cindy Garcia at Guerrilla Fitness in Paramus, it's hard to believe there was ever a time she wasn't a CrossFit athlete. Handstand push-ups? No problem. Pistol squats? They're her strong suit. The sport came naturally to Garcia. She is unstoppable. But despite her hesitance to try it a year ago, Garcia says CrossFit is one of the best things she's ever done for her career as an NJ Transit K9 officer. "You never know what your day is going to entail -- could be easy patrolling, or something major," said Garcia, 42, after Thursday evening's rigorous workou…

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by Cecilia Levine