Bill Barlow

WEST WILDWOOD — The future of the borough’s Police Department was not on the agenda for the Friday evening Borough Commission meeting, but it was certainly on the minds of the residents who crowded the meeting room in Borough Hall.

Well over 100 people turned out, representing a significant percentage of the borough’s year-round population, prompting officials to move the meeting across the street to a park.

Mayor Matthew Ksiazek asked those gathered to save the park benches for older residents, and many sat along the edge of a statue of Neptune that forms the park’s centerpiece.

The borough turned out in force because of a study by the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police that outlined serious issues with the department, which is severely understaffed and led b

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