PARSIPPANY — Rockaway Leaders come out to pledge their whole-hearted support for Regular Republican Sheriff candidate, John Sierchio, and ask all those from the Iron Town of Rockaway to do the same.
Seven of the nine councilmen along with Mayor Dachisen met with Sierchio numerous times over the past weeks and feel confident in his vow to continue the fiscally conservative works laid out by Sheriff Rochford over the last 24 years.
Their concern which prompted the many meetings centered around the fact that most of the residents of the county have lived most of their adult life while Sheriff Rochford has been our Sheriff and thus have enjoyed the shared services approach that Rochford was known for.
The Morris County Sheriff’s Office, ranked in the top 1% of the nations 3.083 Sheriff’s offices, is known as the epitome of Shared Supportive Services which regionalizes the specialties in law enforcement so the individual towns don’t have to fund these units themselves. There has been overtures over the last three years by the Freeholder Board to dismantle the Sheriff’s Office throwing the responsibilities of these special services and their respective costs back to the towns.
Fiscal Rockaway leaders don’t want that and therefore, they are supporting the candidate who is not aligned with these same Freeholders, three of whom are up for re-election on Tuesday, June 7.
“I am not afraid to fight for the agency. It makes fiscal sense to keep the special units such as CIS, K9 and Bomb Squad regionalized. They are expensive units to maintain and there simply is not enough work for any one of those units to be a standalone unit in one or two towns. Like anything else, the skill sets improve with repetition and that’s why our officers make up a nationally ranked agency,” explains Sierchio.
Councilman Don Reddin further describes Sierchio as the type of Sheriff we need in Morris County to stand up to the midnight deals that have been going on in the county lately. Commenting on Sierchio, “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy and often times puts a target on your back by those who are being exposed. John has proven himself to be the only candidate in this race who has put himself out there to do the right on behalf of the people. He will be a Sheriff for the people of Morris County not the establishment.”
Councilman Frank Berman states it simply, “John Sierchio is the right man, for the right position, at the right time… I support John Sierchio.”
The Committee to elect John Sierchio as our next sheriff is hosting an open house at the Sierchio for Sheriff headquarters, 2932 Route 10 West, Parsippany, on Friday, April 29 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. All are welcome to come and enjoy some light refreshments and meet John Sierchio.
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