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Covering Faces Instead Of Windshields: Parking-Enforcement Tool Maker Helps Allendale Police Covering Faces Instead Of Windshields: Parking-Enforcement Tool Maker Helps Allendale Police
Covering Faces Instead Of Windshields: Parking-Enforcement Tool Maker Helps Allendale Police A company that makes a parking-enforcement gadget has added a new tool to help police and other first responders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Barnacle Parking made its name with a 6-square-foot block of yellow plastic that police can splay across a windshield to keep drivers with outstanding tickets from moving their cars – a less expensive alternative than towing.The company retooled one of its plants and is now also covering faces as well as windshields.Allendale police received a shipment of shields -- and just in time, Chief George Scherb said. "The few shields the officers had to us…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Upper Saddle River PD: Driver Impersonating Officer On Route 17 Had Gun, Police Gear Upper Saddle River PD: Driver Impersonating Officer On Route 17 Had Gun, Police Gear
Upper Saddle River PD: Driver Impersonating Officer On Route 17 Had Gun, Police Gear A Florida driver caught smoking a joint with a woman parked in a lot on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River was carrying a loaded gun and a bag that contained handcuffs, a police duty belt, an expandable baton, two switchblades and other police equipment, authorities said. Robert Mitchell, 58, of Hollywood, FL has no law enforcement affiliation, Detective Lt. Edward Kane said Tuesday. Officer Kevin McWilliams approached the couple on Friday, then spotted a magazine that turned out to contain hollow-point bullets, the lieutenant said. A search turned up the semi-automatic handgun and the “tactic…

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by Jerry DeMarco