![]() ![]() He also led the agency through a period of tension, when national attention was focused on police use-of-force policies, the murder of George Floyd while in police custody, and policing practices across the country. ![]() Over the past seven years, he steered the department through the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 408 Brick residents as of Wednesday and sickened thousands of others across the township, according to data from the Ocean County Health Department. In a speech at town hall, Riccio said that policing had changed significantly since he started in the 1980s. The chief's said he's retiring to spend more time with his family: his wife Joy their children Nicole, Joseph, Melissa and Amber and seven grandchildren. He later served a township fire commissioner and as a former chief of the Breton Woods Fire Company, Ducey said.įrom crack house to courthouse: Monmouth prosecutor's remarkable journey to new job Riccio moved to Brick as a teenager and went on to become a volunteer firefighter. The chief is originally from Bayonne, where his grandfather served as a police officer and his father a battalion chief with the fire department, according to the mayor. Riccio also steered the creation of the township's Neighborhood Watch program and worked on new Brick school safety initiatives, the mayor said.īefore serving as chief, Riccio spent years on the police department's drug enforcement unit, in internal affairs and served on an anti-corruption FBI task force, Ducey said. Ducey said the police chief led the township's Blue HOPE program, which helps law enforcement work with drug abuse service providers in order to help struggling opioid users. ![]()
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