During his tenure, Thomson emphasized community policing, gaining a national reputation for encouraging his officers to engage with city residents. in education from Seton Hall University and a B.A. Thomson also served as president of the Police Executive Research Forum, an international organization of more than 3,000 police officials.Thomson oversaw a department with younger officers, many of them recruited after the formation of the county-led force.CAMDEN- Camden County Police Chief J. Scott Thomson joked that even his two sons, ages 12 and 16, don't recognize him out of uniform.Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum, Chuck Wexler, spoke about Thomson’s commitment to community interaction and engagement being a game changer for the city.Thomson's position pays $244,676 per year, according to state pension records.
"Scott’s success was constructed through his laser-like focus on building trust, engaging the community and having a real dialogue with residents. Communicate with a live John L. Scott Pacific Northwest Real Estate Specialist Keep your favorite properties in sync between the desktop website and mobile apps Jim Thomson, Managing Broker. "Camden remains "a city with many challenges," the chief added. John A Thomson… He … "Thomson, a fixture for 25 years in law enforcement in Camden, will retire at the end of August, the county announced Friday morning.
In 1999, he was recognized by the county for his work as a narcotics detective and worked for 10 years in a federal narcotics task force with the FBI and DEA, targeting Camden's most violent drug gangs. Prior to that, he had served as chief of the former Camden Police Department since 2008. "It still has far too many crimes, and far too many victims, and even one is too many. "Speaking about the department he's leaving, he said he was grateful to the officers he led. "You can see it already with the younger kids in the city," said Kunkel. "We have a lot of younger officers, and when things are explained to them about why we do things the way we've done them, there's a lot of buy-in," Kunkel said.The 36-year-old was "the right choice at the right time because he had a vision, the ability to execute, and the accountability that was needed to transform policing in the city," Milgram said in a statement Friday.Thomson's emphasis on community policing led to citations from President Barack Obama, who visited Camden in 2015 and met with Thomson and other city officials as part of his President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Scott John Thomson 7/8/1960 ~ 3/27/2010 Scott John Thomson died Saturday, March 27, 2010 in Salt Lake City. He sits on the board of advisors for New York University School of Law Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. "Thomson called Obama's visit "a watershed moment for the department and the city," something that "validated to the people in this organization that the progress we've made was real. "I know that's been a point of contention with the NAACP," Thomson said. View the profiles of people named John Scott Thompson. Chris Christie on May 1, 2013.Thomson became Camden's youngest police chief when he was appointed to run the Camden City Police in 2008 by then-Attorney General Anne Milgram. If you fill a bad area with good people, the bad people don't have a place to operate. Chief Thomson began his law enforcement career in 1992.