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Welcome to the Suffern Police Department homepage.  For the past 100 plus years our department has been providing exemplary service to our community and we look forward to doing the same into the future.  Please feel free to explore the pages of this website as they give insight to the different units and aspects of the Suffern Police Department.    We thank the Suffern community for their continued support.

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Chief Clarke Osborn

June, 2010

Congratulations to the Suffern DARE Hockey spring season champions:  Middle School Division-Norway coached by Mike Clifford and Jamie DeMarco.  High School Division-Finland coached by George Epstein.  

Congratulations to Det. Sgt. Ray Sheehan, Sgt. John Gloede, PO Glen Wilson, PO Mike Fennessey and Auxiliary Officers Alan Newman and Bruce Haynes for receiving awards from the Village of Suffern on June 7th for exemplary service. 

 
June, 2010
  • DARE 5th Grade BBQ & Pool Party: Monday, June 21st:  Suffern Memorial Pool

  • NY Jets All Pro DARRELLE REVIS made a surprise appearance at the Suffern PBA "1st Annual Vincent Crotty Memorial Foundation Wing Nite" on Saturday June 5th at the Mahwah Elks.  Darrelle signed autographs and took pictures with hundreds of attendees for free!!! Thank you Darrelle!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Ongoing News:  The Suffern Police Department DARE Street Hockey League is currently accepting applications for it’s fall league. The fall season consists of two divisions, a grade 2-3-4 league and a grade 5-6 league.  Games are played on Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday's at the Suffern DARE Rink on Yorkshire Drive in Suffern. For further information call 845-357-DARE Ext. 5


As a way of continuing our community outreach, the Suffern Police Department recently designed and set up a Facebook page.  This site contains news and happenings of the Suffern Police Department including historical pictures and department history.  All residents who are Facebook subscribers are encouraged to sign up as a fan so they can keep up on local happenings. 


The Suffern Police Department recently became an officially recognized New York State Accredited Agency.  The criteria for receiving this status, which is coordinated by the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services, is that department’s must meet 130 operational standards and go through an exhaustive review by New York State Accreditor’s to ensure that they are complying with these standards.  Suffern received this distinction in December, 2009 and is one of only 20% of the department’s state wide to receive this distinction.  Suffern’s program is coordinated by Lt. John Bonkoski and Sgt. Jon DiRoma.