Officer Michael Ackerman, the crime prevention officer, said police also have linked the new watch group and Loch Arbour businesses with the police fax net, so that residents and merchants can know immediately when there's been a theft or burglary. Police are lending electric engravers to mark property, and encourage residents and business owners to check the police Web page on the Internet to keep informed. We're trying to address the different routes in town. One way is more aggressive motor-vehicle enforcement, which has resulted in a number of drug arrests or arrests of people wanted in other towns on warrants. Koch also looked closely at the use of the local NJ Transit tracks as a pedestrian thoroughfare into the town by outsiders who did not have a reason to be there.
Police can now sign complaints against trespassers.
Last year, the village had eight burglaries, seven of which police solved, Koch said. Police are running a two-officer patrol during the summer months, he said. And we encourage people to call. We'd rather go out on 100 false alarms then do a burglary report. We are just in a position of having to maximize every dollar we spend, and this was a significant difference.