Crime & Safety
Wyckoff Police Honored for Traffic Safety Award
The department recently won the highest award given out by AAA for traffic safety enforcement.
For six of the past seven years, the Wyckoff Police Department has received AAA North Jersey’s highest traffic safety award. At a township committee meeting Tuesday, officials thanked the police officers working to spread awareness of traffic and pedestrian safety.
“This award is really all about traffic safety initiatives,” Chief Benjamin Fox said at the meeting.
“It is about educating people and keeping them as safe as possible, and we are extremely active [on that front].”
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Fox along with Wyckoff traffic enforcers Lt. Charles Van Dyk, Retired Sgt. Robert Mac Kay, Sgt. Jack McEwan, and Sgt. Brian Zivkovich presented the Committee with the AAA award Tuesday, asking for it to be displayed in the trophy case at town hall.
The Committee thanked the officers for their work on traffic safety, and Committeeman and Police Commissioner Kevin Rooney said he was not surprised the department had won the award.
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“I truly think our [police] department is the best in the state, and you continue to prove that day in and day out,” he said.
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