POLICE EMPLOYMENT

POLICE OFFICER
The Howell Township Police Department is a non-civil service department, which means we hire off the Monmouth County Chiefs of Police testing procedures. For further information regarding the testing dates and location, please visit the Monmouth County Police Academy website.

DISPATCHER
For information regarding the hiring of Police Dispatchers, please contact Steve Gerrity, Communications Supervisor at 732-938-4575 ext. 2865.

DEPARTMENT TOURS

For information or to schedule a tour of the Howell Police Department, please
contact Sergeant Chris Hill, Community Services Division at 732-938-4575 ext. 2898

FRAUD

When someone uses your name and personal information to commit fraud, it is a crime. The problem is you may not know that your identity or credit card information has been stolen until you get credit card bills for cards you did not open, charges on your card you did not authorize or a bad credit report with debits you never knew you had. Here are some steps to take when discovering that you are a victim of identity theft or credit card fraud:

Contact the Federal Trade Commission: 1-877-IDTHEFT (1-877-438-4338), www.consumer.gov/idtheft to report ID Theft and to learn of ways to restore your credit.

Contact the Social Security Administration: 1-800-269-0271, www.ssa.gov, if it appears someone is using your social security number.

Contact the Fraud Department of all three major credit-reporting bureaus: you may obtain a copy of your report free, if you are the victim of fraud.

Experian/CBA
PO Box 9530 Allen, TX 75013
1-888-EXPERIAN (1-888-397-3742)
Fax: 1-214-390-3527
www.experian.com

Equifax
PO Box 740256 Atlanta, GA 30374
1-800-525-6285
Fax: 1-404-612-2533
www.equifax.com

TransUnion
PO Box 6790 Fullerton, CA 92834
1-800-680-7289
Fax: 1-714-447-6034
www.tuc.com

Contact creditors for any accounts tampered with or opened fraudulently.

Contact your local Police Department to file a police report. Having a police report will help prove your case to creditors and with NJ MVC if you apply for a new driver's license number.

Contact the US Postal Inspectors if any of your mail was stolen or you believe that someone fraudulently changed your address.

If you discover an identity theft has changed the billing addres on your account(s), close the account(s) and when you open a new account, ask that it be password protected.

You may also request that a fraud alert be placed on your credit report. This will signal a credit grantor that no credit should be issued without contacting you by telephone anytime a new account is being requested.

The website, www.identitytheft.org, offers for sale, a step by step guide on how to regain credit, written by a victim and attorney, Mari J. Frank: entitled "From Victim to Victor" (Porpoise Press, 1998). You will also find other information for victims of identity theft.

INTERNET SAFETY

INTERNET GUIDELINES FOR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS
•Clear, simple, easy-to-read house rules should be posted on or near the monitor.

•Look into safeguarding programs or options your online service provider might offer which may include monitoring or filtering capabilities.

•Talk to your children about what personal information is and why you should never give it to people online.

•If children use chat or e-mail, talk to them about never meeting in person with anyone they first "met" online.

•Talk to children about never responding to offensive or dangerous e-mail, chat or other communications. Report any such communication to your local police department. Do not delete the offensive or dangerous e-mail when contacting the police.

For further information regarding internet safety, please visit the New Jersey State Police Website and review their Internet Safety Tips section.

MEGAN'S LAW

For information regarding Megan's Law or Sex Offender Registrations and Registrants, please contact Detective Sergeant Storrow at 732-938-4575 ext. 2888 or visit the New Jersey State Police Website for a comprehensive inquiry into Megan's Law and Sex Offenders.

ANIMAL COMPLAINTS

57-7 REGULATIONS
A. Running at large. No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit it to run at large upon the public streetsor any public park or any pulic building or any other public place within the Township unaccompanied by its owner or his, her or its representative. Any dog found running at large shall be deemed to be doing so with the permission of the owner, keeper or harborer and such person shall be guilty of a violation of this subsection.

B. Female Dogs. No owner of a female dog shall suffer or permit her to be in or upon any street, highway or alley or other public place in the Township or to trespass upon the property of other persons in the Township at any time while such female dog may be in season. Such female dog running at large or trespassing in violation of this subsection may be impounded and destroyed, as provided in this article, not less than seven days after he capture or seizure, unless the owner shall reclaim her within the aforesaid seven-day period and pay the penalty for violation of this subsection.

C. Nuisance Restrictions. No person shall own, keep, harbor or permit any dog to annoy neighbors or other persons living within the immediate vicinity of the Townshipby loud, frequent or habitual continuous barking, howling, or yelping for a period of more than 20 continuous minutes between the hours of 7:00am and 10:00pm or for a period of more than 15 continuous minutes between the hours of 10:00pm and 7:00am. "Continuous" is defined as uninterrupted, unbroken, not intermittent or occasional, so persistently repeated at short intervals as to constitute virtually an unbroken series. No dog owner shall permit his dog to trespass upon the property of any other persons in the Township no suffer or permit his dog to damage shrubbery, flowers, gardens or any other property of any kind or character belonging to any neighbor or other person in the Township. (Amended 12-16-2003 by Ord. No. 0-03-40)

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

Any and all traffic related problems within the Township of Howell should be addressed to the Supervisor of the Howell Township Police Traffic Safety Bureau.

TRAFFIC CITATION QUESTIONS

Any and all traffic citation questions can be addressed to either the Municipal Court or the officer who wrote the citation which is identified by the 3-digit badge # located in the lower
right hand portion of the citation itself.

COURT HOURS

The Howell Township Municipal Court is open from 8:30am - 4:30pm Monday thru Friday and closed on the weekends and holidays.

TOWNSHIP NOISE ORDINANCE

208-7 NOISE PROHIBITIONS
B. Specific prohibitions. The following acts, among others, are declared to be loud, disturbing, or excessive noise in violation of this chapter, but said enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusively, namely:

B-1. Horns and signaling devices. The sounding of any horns or signaling device on any motor vehicle on any public right-of-way, except as a danger warning signal or as provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of New Jersey.

B-3. Exterior loudspeakers. Using or operating any mechanical device or loudspeaker in a fixed or movable position exterior to any building, or mounted upon any aircraft, motor vehicle or motorboat, such that the sound therefrom is plainly audible at or beyond the property boundary or the source or on a public way, except between the hours of 10:00pm and 7:00am the following day.

B-5. Loading operations. Loading, unloading, opening, or otherwise handling boxes, crates, containers, garbage cans, or otherwise similair objects between the hours of 9:00pm and 7:00am the following day in such a manner as to cause noise disturbance.

B-6. Construction noise. Operating or causing to be operated any equipment used for commercial construction, repair, alteration or demolition work on buildings, structures, streets, alleys, or appurtnances thereto, in residential, commercial, industrial and manufacturing land use categories, with sound control devices that would constitute a violation of any regulation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or between the hours of 9:00pm and 7:00am the following day on weekdays and between 8:00pm Friday night and 8:00am Saturday and between the hours of 6:00pm on Saturdays through 7:00am on Mondays, and on legal holidays.

B-7. Vehicle repairs or testing. Repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing any motor vehicle (or off-road vehicle) or motorboat in or near a residential use district in such a manner as to cause noise disturbance or violate the provisions of 208-11.

FINGERPRINTING INFORMATION

The Howell Township Police Department is available for residents needing to be fingerprinted on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 10:00am - 12:00pm and 2:00pm - 4:00pm. Residents must have proper ID showing a valid Howell address as well as proper paperwork authorizing the Howell Police to fingerprint them. The following are charges for certain Fingerprint applications:

Volunteer Firefighter-State Card-NO FEE
Paid Firefighters-State and Federal Cards-$60.25
Liquor License Transfers-Federal Card-$30.25
New Liquor License-State and Federal Cards-$60.25
Permit to Carry-State and Federal Cards-$60.25
Limousine Driver's License-State Card-$30.00

To schedule fingerprint background checks for the following purposes, please contact Sagem Morpho Inc. at www.bioapplicant.com/nj or call 877-503-5981.

FORM A
Good Conduct
Immigration
Naturalization
Personal Record
Visa
Expungement

FORM B
International Adoption Requiring Notarization
Foreign Business Requiring Notarization

FORM C
Employment (response returned to applicant)

FORM D
Employment (response returned to employer)

RECOVERED PROPERTY

If you have located any property that you believe is of some personal or financial value to someone, please contact the Howell Township Police Department so we can arrange for the item(s) to be retrieved.

CIVIL MATTERS

If you are having or are involved in a civil matter that doesn't require an emergent police response, you can contact the Monmouth County Courthouse-Civil Division at 732-677-4300, located at 71 Monument St, Freehold 07728.