Changes at the top for Jefferson Twp. Police Dept.

JEFFERSON – The township police department has officially installed its new police chief and promoted four officers within the department.

William Craig Jr., who was promoted to chief, was hired by the department in August of 1989 and worked as a patrol officer through March of 1995.

He was a detective from April of 1995 through June of 1998 when he was promoted to patrol sergeant. He was promoted to patrol lieutenant in 2004 and captain in 2006. In 2009, he was promoted to deputy police chief and assigned as Jefferson Township emergency management coordinator.

Craig has had extensive specialized police training, including advanced accident investigation, advanced narcotics and drug interdiction, internal affairs investigations, gang and organized crime investigations, drug recognition expert instructor, performance management, emergency management, homeland security, business continuity management, school security and police response to terrorism. He has attended the FBI Command Institute for Law Enforcement Executives and is a Graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Outside the department, he is president at East Shore Beach Club in Lake Hopatcong and a member of the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club. He is married father of two.

Eric F. Wilsusen was promoted to deputy chief. Wilsusen began his career with the department as a patrol officer in 1986. In 1990 he was assigned as the community services officer and was the department’s first DARE officer. In 1999, he was promoted to sergeant and was assigned to the patrol bureau.

In 2000 he was assigned as the Services/Records Bureau supervisor. In 2007, he was promoted to lieutenant and was assigned as the administrative bureau commander. In 2009 he was promoted to captain and served as the operation commander where his primary duties included running the day to day operations of the department including internal affairs and public information. Wilsusen also serves as the township’s director of communications/IT and as a deputy emergency management coordinator.

Wilsusen is a past chief and life member of the Jefferson Twp/ Fire Co. 2 and a member of the Lake Shawnee Club Board of Governors and currently serves as the club president. Wilsusen also serves on the Jefferson Youth Soccer Board and recently became president of the High School PTSA. He is married a married father of two. His father retired from the Jefferson Twp. Police Department in 1992.

Sean Conrad, who was promoted to captain, is a lifelong resident of the township who became a police officer in August of 1990. In February of 2001 he was promoted to sergeant and was assigned to be the department’s lead firearms instructor.

Conrad developed and implemented a complete Firearms Training and Qualifications initiative for the department. In 2009, he was promoted to lieutenant and was assigned as a platoon commander within the patrol division.

In December of 2014, Conrad graduated from the 258th class of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. He is a married father of three.

Tim McBride, who was promoted to lieutenant, moved to the Prospect Point area of Jefferson in 1972. He became a police officer in 1992. In 1996 he was certified as a D.A.R.E. officer and assisted in the conducting of D.A.R.E. classes in the elementary schools.

In December of 1999, McBride was assigned to the Community Policing Bureau, where he spearheaded a school resource officer program on the high school/ middle school campus. McBride was also one of the first seven certified bicycle patrol officers in the township. He was promoted to sergeant in 2009.

McBride, who instructs Community Policing and Racially Influenced Policing classes at the Morris County Police Academy, is also a published author writing a work of historical fiction titled “Raccoon Island.” He is a married father of two.

Paul Castimore was also promoted to lieutenant. He began his career with the department in 1992 as a dispatcher, working nights and weekends while studying law enforcement at County College of Morris.

In 1994, Castimore was hired as a patrol officer. During his patrol time he received several commendations for DWI enforcement, drug enforcement, burglary investigations and life saving.

In 2000 he was transferred to the Community Service Bureau as the community service officer and became a DARE instructor, a Certified Noise Officer, started the DNA Lifeprint program and started the Jefferson Police Jr. Police Academy.

In 2005 he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the patrol division as a shift supervisor. In 2008 he was moved to the community service’s/records sergeant position over seeing the Records Bureau.

In his new post, he will be the Administrative Division commander overseeing the Detective Bureau and Service’s Bureau.