{"id":80475,"date":"2025-12-03T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:51:11","slug":"long-beach-township-swears-in-three-new-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80475\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Township Swears in Three New Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301023\" class=\"wp-image-301023 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8129-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1817\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-301023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018A GOOD GROUP\u2019: (From right) LBTPD Chief Edward Bernhard congratulates Patrolmen Jared Schworn, Robert Gunnell and Noah Brachelli after their swearing-in by Mayor Joseph Mancini on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, Dec. 1 began with a ceremony to swear in three new police officers, whose family members and friends filled the courtroom at the municipal complex in Brant Beach. Mayor Joseph Mancini led Patrolmen Jared Schworn, Robert Gunnell and Noah Brachelli through the oath of office, and formally welcomed them to the township police department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy that they have come to work for us,\u201d Mancini remarked. \u201cThey\u2019re a good group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LBTPD Chief Edward Bernhard said the three patrolmen graduated from the police academy this past spring. \u201cIn our department, we want the best of the best,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGentlemen, welcome to the family, \u201d he said to Schworn, Gunnell and Brachelli. \u201cGood luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck and be safe,\u201d Mancini stated.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the meeting, during the public comment session, Ann Barkley of Loveladies commented, \u201cIt\u2019s lovely to have that ceremony to welcome the new officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim Cook of Brighton Beach echoed the sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Both Barkley and Rand Pearsall of Holgate also thanked the township for getting the holiday lights up on the light posts so early. \u201cIt makes a huge different,\u201d said Pearsall.<\/p>\n<p>Approved on second reading during the meeting was Ordinance 25-12C, which prohibits individuals from placing dewatering hoses across Beach and Atlantic avenues from June 15 to Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Last, the mayor said a proposed resolution designating Block 13.19, lots 12 and 12.01, and Block 13.16, lots 9.02 and 9.03 \u2013 formerly the sites of Kubel\u2019s Too and Joey\u2019s Pizza \u2013 as \u201can area in need for rehabilitation.\u201d This resolution will go before the township land use board at its meeting on Dec. 10, Mancini noted. \u00a0\u2014J.K.-H.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018A GOOD GROUP\u2019: (From right) LBTPD Chief Edward Bernhard congratulates Patrolmen Jared Schworn, Robert Gunnell and Noah Brachelli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-80475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}