FREEHOLD (MCPO NEWS) – Father Mychal Judge of the New York City Fire Department, recognized as the first officially designated casualty of the 9/11 terror attacks, once summarized the mission of a chaplain – a cleric directly affiliated with a secular institution, there to provide faith-based counsel during times of crisis or tragedy – like so: “if you descend into somebody else’s private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.”
With those words in mind, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office’s Police Chaplaincy Program was formally launched yesterday, with Acting Prosecutor Lori Linskey welcoming more than a dozen current and future local police chaplains in Freehold to discuss their roles during times of need.
We’d like to thank all of our initial MCPO Chaplain candidates for joining us and contributing to a lively, productive discussion, and we look forward to this Program creating greatly improved outcomes for individuals enduring times of crisis and upheaval of all kinds.