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The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | April 2017
NJSACOP ACE Certification Program Update
3 New ACE (Accredited Chief/Command Executive)
Certification Program Awards
The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police has granted certification status to 3 deserving police
executives at the March Police Chiefs Br iefing. Each applicant recently underwent peer reviews conducted
by NJSACOP Accredited Chief/Command Executive (ACE) Program and has successfully earned the
following designations:
Accredited Chief Executive [ACE-COP]
Rockaway Township – Chief Martin D. McParland
Morris Plains – Chief Jason Kohn
Accredited Chief/Command Executive [ACE]
Mount Olive Township – Lieutenant Philip Lucivero
The NJSACOP ACE Program is a revisiting of the former Certified Chief Law Enforcement Executive
Program (CCLEEP) with a new lean towards accrediting the individual police leader and assuring that
experience, formal education and management training, continuing education, and collaboration are
formally assessed against a recommended standard. The goal is to give surety of merit in our state
association’s formal gauging of effective police leadership through a model of peer review.
The NJSACOP ACE Certification Program directly encourages New Jersey's law enforcement executives to
attain sanctioned benchmarks in pursuit of a recommended standard for police leadership that are
measurable and attainable. By offering proof of these standards to NJSACOP Assessors, individual police
leaders can attain NJSACOP Accredited Chief/Command Executive (ACE) Certification Status.
The Certification Program measures essential proofs in three areas for the ACE and ACE-COP
Certification, and in five areas for the ACE-COP Advanced Certification. If it is merited, NJACOP awards
individual leadership accredited status based on those appraisals. The ACE Program also promotes and
encourages continued education through ACE Re-Certification Program requirements.
It is the policy of the NJSACOP to promote professional competence, continued education career
development among all members of law enforcement and in particularly amongst our leaders. In order to
achieve this goal the NJSACOP encourages current, future and retired chiefs and police executives to
participate in the ACE Certification Program.
For additional information, or to submit an application, please visit www.njsacop.org.

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