There’s been a lot of talk about the decision to put a police officer on Island Beach on the weekends following what I’ll call overcrowding-related complaints. The GT editorial even suggested studying the issue before instituting the change. For as long as I can remember, and that’s back to the 60’s, there’ve been police at Greenwich Point, including those special summertime bicycle police. Why wouldn’t we also have police at Island Beach? I should think that the fact that it’s an Island, and depending on where the ferries and police boats are it could take 1/2 hour for police to get there in an emergency, would warrant a police presence at Island Beach more so than at Greenwich Point.
It’s about time we had a full-time police presence on Island Beach. And I certainly support efforts to ensure Island Beach is not home to loud music and beer bottles.
