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On Tuesday June 11, 2019 at approximately 4:38 pm, officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the area of Manchester Boulevard near the intersection of State Highway Route 70, in the Whiting section of the Township, for the report of a multi-vehicle crash with entrapment. Upon arrival, officers observed a 2017, Honda Civic [...]

The Manchester Township Police Department is proud to announce that the First Responders Fitness Challenge, held on Wednesday, June 5, successfully raised money for charity while offering an intensive physical competition for fire, military, and law enforcement personnel. This team-based competition, held at Harry Wright Lake in Whiting, raised nearly $3,600, which will benefit the [...]

Please note the following time change for the June 8, 2019, Physical Agility Examination, to be held at Manchester Township High School. All applicants originally scheduled for the 12:00 p.m. examination have been rescheduled to participate in the 8:00 a.m. examination. You must arrive PRIOR to that time.  No one will be allowed to enter [...]

Three Trenton residents were arrested after being stopped on State Highway 70 near the Holly Oaks section of Manchester Township.  On Friday, May 10, 2019, members of the department’s Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) observed a suspicious vehicle in the area of the QuickChek on County Route 571.  The vehicle was stopped on Route 70 for [...]

On Friday May 10, 2019, at approximately 8:12 am, officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the intersection of Ridgeway Road and State Highway 70 to investigate a motor vehicle crash involving multiple vehicles.  Upon arrival, officers observed three vehicles in the northwest corner of the intersection; a 2010, Toyota Corolla, a 2017, [...]

Two Ocean County residents were charged with multiple narcotic related charges after being stopped in a motor vehicle on State Highway 37 in the area of Colonial Drive.  On April 18, 2019, members of the Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) observed a vehicle in the area of County Route 547 and County Route 571.  The vehicle [...]

On Sunday, April 21, 2019, at approximately 7:10 p.m., officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the intersection of Commonwealth Blvd., and Beacon Street in the Pine Lake Park section, to investigate a report of a crash involving two vehicles, one of which had reportedly caught fire. Upon arrival, officers observed a 2003 [...]

A multi-jurisdictional investigation into multiple acts of criminal mischief to vehicles in Ocean County led to the arrest of 35 year old Chesterfield, New Jersey resident Anthony Lewis. Mr. Lewis was charged with thirty-one counts of criminal mischief, thirty-one counts of interference with transportation and thirty-one counts of reckless endangerment of another person. The investigation [...]

  On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at approximately 4:35 pm hours, the Manchester Township Police Department received a hold-up alarm from the Wells Fargo Bank located at 501 Route 530 in the Whiting section of the Township. While en route to the bank, responding officers learned that a male subject had entered the establishment, demanded [...]

A 52-year-old township travel baseball team manager was arrested on March 21, 2019, after it was learned that he misappropriated $6,500 in team money. Michael Walters, of Pine Lake Park was charged with one count of theft by deception following the investigation by Manchester Township Police. On March 20, 2019, coaches and team representatives for [...]

We’re very proud that the groundbreaking “911eye” system, recently deployed in Manchester Township, received national attention on the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt! With 911eye, our Public Safety Telecommunicators have the option of seeing a secure, ‘one-time-use’ live video stream from a caller’s smartphone, should they give permission. This live view, along with the caller’s [...]

During the morning hours of Wednesday, March 13th, officers from the Manchester Police Department joined officers from the Jackson Township Police Department in conducting a traffic enforcement detail along portions of County Route 571 in both municipalities. The purpose of this detail was to enforce New Jersey’s motor vehicle laws as part of an ongoing [...]

Chief Lisa D. Parker announced today that a team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will arrive on Monday, March 11, 2019, to examine all aspects of the Manchester Township Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations and support services. “Verification by the team that the Manchester Township [...]

The Manchester Township Police Department is proud to announce the arrival of “911eye,” an emergency video streaming service that will allow anyone with a smartphone to provide our police dispatchers with a live view of what they are seeing, in many cases, before emergency responders are even mobilized. “911eye will fundamentally change how the Manchester [...]