Read about the steps being taken by the new Metro Police to make the residents of Camden feel safer.

“I’m looking to see a partnership form between the metro division officers and the citizens of Camden; that partnership is crucial to prevent future crimes,” said Freeholder director Louis Capelli, Jr., who helped develop the new force.  “For the first time in decades they’ll have officers walking the beat and in their neighborhoods on bicycles.”

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More than 30 members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division will be deployed on the streets of New Jersey's most impoverished city.

In addition, 23 new officers will begin field training with former members of the Camden police department. Those officers will share their experience of patrolling the streets.

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(CAMDEN) – Senator Donald Norcross and Assemblymen Angel Fuentes and Gilbert “Whip” Wilson (D-Camden/Gloucester) have announced a major new development project to begin on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden. The project includes a 75,000 square-foot ShopRite, as well as 75,000 square feet for additional retail space.

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Listen to Freeholders Scot Mccray and Louis Cappelli Jr. discuss the Camden County Police Force on Power 99 FM here.