Fair Lawn police join ‘NJ COP Shot’ program

SHOUT OUT: Fair Lawn PBA Local 67, in conjunction with the Fair Lawn Police Department, has joined other PBA locals and police departments throughout New Jersey in displaying ‘NJ COP SHOT’ stickers on the bumpers of patrol and auxiliary patrol units.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

08/30/2013 2:31 p.m.

Thanks to NJ COP SHOT, $20,000 in reward money is paid out for information leading to the arrest and conviction of someone who shoots a police officer.

“We wholeheartedly support this important program, “said PBA Local 67 President Michael O’Brien (above, right).”Anyone who kills or seriously injures a New Jersey law enforcement officer should realize that, with the public’s support, we will find you.”

NJ Cop Shot was created by the New Jersey State PBA after off-duty Paterson Police Officer Tyron Franklin was shot and killed on January 7, 2007 during a robbery at a fast-food eatery in the city.

With no established fund to support hunting cop killers in New Jersey at the time, state PBA President Anthony Wieners created a committee to implement a cop-shot reward program so that we “would never be unprepared to track down anyone who shot an officer in New Jersey.”

The program, established in March 2008, would show that “never again should a person who pulls the trigger on an officer in New Jersey get a moment’s rest,” Wieners said.

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