Congratulations to our retirees! We appreciate your years of dedicated service to the Toms River Police Department and will miss seeing you every day. Enjoy your retirement Cpl. Pamela Slaven, Sgt. Theodore Grob, Sgt. Keith Diehl, and Dep. Chief James Harris! Please join us in welcoming Ptl. Eric Nelson, Ptl. Tyler Pinto, Ptl. Sean McNicholas, [...]
Shout out to all that represented TRPD in Seaside Heights at the Semper Five 5k Run. The TRPD family had two of our officers place in the top 15 participants of over 1,000 runners! It was a great day for a great cause!
We were certainly feeling the love from our community today! Thank You to The Chelsea Assisted Living -Toms River for the beautiful lunch you provided to all first responders yesterday! It was truly awesome to receive a visit from some of the residents at Brandywine Living. They came with beautiful baskets of cookies and sandwiches [...]
We just wanted to say Thank You to everyone who came out to say hello at Sailfest, it was such a great day! We were so impressed by everyone who took our challenges. Please click this link for some highlights from the day.
We’d like to send a special Thank You to the staff at Dunkin Donuts for being such gracious hosts yesterday for our monthly Coffee with a Cop! Thank you to everyone who stopped to say hello, it was a great day!
When Officer Samantha Sutter and Officer Joe Mastronardy learned these kids were not wearing bicycle helmets because they didn’t have them they knew it exactly what to do. The officers sent them on their way only to return with three brand new helmets. These cuties were extremely grateful for the gesture. They were also ecstatic [...]
We received a boating call for assistance from a family off Shelter Cove Beach. Everyone on the boat was okay but there were two young girls aboard who were very upset. Officer John Mehl jumped in the water and walked out to the boat as it coasted toward shore. He comforted the two crying girls [...]
Officer Rick Karkovice made the day of these bikers! We love when the community sends us photos of Operation Brain Freeze stops!
Officer Vic Tamaro responded to the area of Hovsons Blvd for an elderly male requesting help with his 115 lb. dog whos back legs gave out while on an evening walk. Realizing it would be uncomfortable for the dog and difficult to move her, Officer Tamaro requested Silverton EMS to respond with their “Reeves” and [...]
Our first National Night Out was a great success and we couldn’t have done it without all of you! …and a little help from the weather fairy! We’d like to extend a special Thank You to the Perlmutter Family Shoprite for donating all of the food for the night, it was truly appreciated and very [...]