July 24, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5 Wyckoff Township welcomes two new police officers by John Koster The Wyckoff Township Committee welcomed two new police officers to the Wyckoff department with the approval of Police Chief Benjamin Fox. Probationary Patrolman James Bakelaar is the son and grandson of northwest Bergen County police officers. His grandfather served on the Midland Park Police Depart- ment and his father is currently a lieutenant in the Franklin Lakes Police Department. Bakelaar, 24, enrolled in the Passaic County Police Academy Alternate Route program and will be available for duty when he graduates next week. He will immedi- ately begin his training and orientation with the Wyckoff Police Department and will be assigned to patrol following field training. He was previously employed as a police dispatcher with Northwest Central Dispatch. He is a 2012 graduate of William Paterson University, where he received a degree in criminal justice. He has worked in academic and sports counseling with children and teenagers. Michael Teegan, 28, is a Glen Rock Left: Michael Teegan is sworn in as his father William Teegan holds the Bible. Right: James Bakelaar is sworn in by Township Administra- tor Robert Shannon as his mother Ginny holds the Bible and his father, Franklin Lakes Police Lt. Jack Bakelaar, and Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox look on. Township revises rules in proposed smoking ban The Wyckoff Township Committee has revised the verbiage of the proposed anti- smoking ordinance and re-introduced the measure at last week’s public meeting. The update would allow those who smoke to do so in their cars in public parking lots. The ordinance as introduced originally had been withdrawn for further study because it would have banned smoking even inside parked cars on the outskirts of sports events. The revised ordinance would allow individuals to smoke inside parked cars but not on the athletic fields or in recreational or park areas. Cigarette butts could not be discarded on the asphalt or grass because this would constitute littering. The new ordinance, which is slated for (continued on page 13) resident and has worked with the Wyckoff Police Department as a dispatcher since September 2010. Before that Teegan was a dispatcher with Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch. Teegan graduated from Binghamton University, where he was on the dean’s list for three years, and received his bachelor’s degree with a double major in philosophy and in politics and law. He is also a certi- fied EMT and a certified CPR instructor. A member of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambu- lance Corps, he has served as an auxiliary police officer with the Glen Rock Police Department and as a special police officer (continued on page 13)