No person shall hereafter be given or accept a permanent appointment
as a police officer in the City of North Wildwood, New Jersey, unless
such person has successfully completed a police training course at
a school approved and authorized by the Police Training Commission
in the Department of Law and Public Safety of the State of New Jersey,
pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 1961, as amended.
Once a police officer given a permanent appointment has completed
a police training course as prescribed by the Police Training Commission,
he/she shall be subject to a one-year probationary period to be conducted
in accordance with the requirements of the New Jersey civil service
statute and its implementing regulations.
No person shall be permitted to take a police training course
unless he holds a probationary or temporary appointment as a police
officer in the City of North Wildwood, New Jersey, and such appointee
shall be entitled to a leave of absence with pay during the period
of the police training course.
The City of North Wildwood has notified civil service that City
resident applicants to the North Wildwood Police Department, who pass
the civil service examination, are to be entitled to priority over
nonresidents as long as it remains lawful to do so. A resident applicant,
for the purpose of this section, is one who is a resident of the City
of North Wildwood on the date of his or her application and continues
to be such a resident up to the time of his or her appointment.