July 24, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES Area II • Page 13 Wyckoff’s two new policemen include Glen Rock man 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 Department 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 immediately 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 Left: Michael Teegan is sworn into office by Wyckoff Township Administrator Robert Shannon as his father William Teegan holds the Bible and Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox looks on. Right: James Bakelaar is sworn in his mother Ginny holds the Bible. criminal justice. He has worked in academic and sports counseling with children and teenagers. Michael Teegan, 28, is a Glen Rock 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 certified EMT and a certi- fied CPR instructor. A member of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps, he has served as an auxiliary police offi- cer with the Glen Rock Police Department and as a special police officer with the Wyckoff Police Department, and as a member of the Wyckoff Police Department Emergency Management Team. The new patrolman has advanced computer skills, which officials say are a tremendous asset to the department. He will begin his training at the Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah and will be assigned to a field training officer in December, then to patrol duty in Wyckoff.