Community Policing DIVISION

The overall main goal of the Community Policing Division is to build a strong partnership between the community and law enforcement in order to reduce crime and improve the quality of life.

Crossing Guard Hiring Information

  1. guards.pdf

Community Police Events

  1. Pizza with a Cop (PDF)
  1. Coffee with a Cop (PDF)

Safety Tips

  1. Tips to protect yourPackages (PDF)
  2. Tips on how to keep your Home Safe (PDF)
  3. Shut off Vehicles (PDF)
  4. Lock your Car and Take your Keys (PDF)
  5. Lock Vehicles (PDF)
  6. Home Security Checklist (PDF)
  1. HALLOWEEN SAFETY (PDF)
  2. Car Theft Information (PDF)
  3. Senior Safety (PDF)
  4. Identity Theft Victim (PDF)
  5. For The Parent (PDF)
  6. safe exchange

Neighborhood Watch Information

  1. Neighborhood Watch Recruitment Flyer (PDF)
  2. Neighborhood Watch Program Pamphlet (PDF)
  1. Tips for a Successful NBHW Group (PDF)

Child Seat Information

  1. Child Seat Safety (PDF)

Bicycle Registration

  1. Bicycle Registration (PDF)

Domestic Violence Response Team Members (DVRT)

Applicants must:

  • Be 18 years of age
  • Have access to transportation
  • Live or work in Bloomfield
  • Possess a valid driver’s license
  • Submit to background investigations, including fingerprinting

View and print DVRT Member Application (PDF).

Telemarketing Fraud

Older Americans are the targets. Phony prizes, sweepstakes, investments and Charities, are the lure. Congress estimates that Americans lose $40 billion annually to telemarketing fraud. Nearly 80% of these calls target people over 50, according to the FBI. Older Americans tend to be targeted for telemarketing schemes because of the perception they:

  • Are more easily intimidated.
  • Are more trusting and polite than younger people and consequently find it difficult to hang up on callers.
  • Find it difficult to believe that swindlers can look and sound like trustworthy people.
  • Have more time to read all of their mail, and more time to listen to phone calls, giving the fraudulent telemarketers a "foot in the door."

Older people are more vulnerable due to the fact they are embarrassed to admit they were swindled and are less likely to contact the police.

Scheme

A recent telemarketing scheme involved a person pretending to be calling from a well-known telephone company. This "caller" stated to the homeowner, that the telephone company was attempting to protect the homeowner from telemarketing fraud and asked for homeowner's specific information about credit card numbers, social security numbers, phone numbers, etc. 

In turn, they promised to keep the telemarketers from calling. What was actually being done by this scam, was stealing the information from the homeowner to make fraudulent credit card transactions, and the phone numbers were used to make illegal long-distance calls.

Be Careful! Do not give out any personal information especially your bank account number or your credit card number to anyone!

Contact

If you feel you may have been a victim of telemarketing fraud, you can call: Bloomfield Police Community Policing Unit 973-680-4103 or 973-680-4096