_By NANCY SHIELDS_ (mailto:[email protected]) • STAFF WRITER • July 22,
2010
ASBURY PARK — The city Board of Education has hired former city police
director Louis Jordan as a part-time security manager to oversee the school
district's security and 18 security guards.
Jordan will make $30,000 in the 12-month position.
School Superintendent Denise Lowe said Thursday it is a new position, and
one of her early questions after taking over as superintendent last year
was why the district didn't have someone in charge of security.
"Part of the position is training, safety assessment, assessing our
needs," she said. Lowe said Jordan comes with the expertise needed to train
the
security staff and work with parents.
Jordan served as Asbury Park's police director from 2002 to 2005 but did
not get his contract renewed after using a quasi-military approach, with new
titles and new honorary positions to make his officers more accountable.
He ended up prompting resentment and opposition from both the majority of
his superior officers as well as the rank and file, and could not hold on to
his job.
But through the years, Jordan has held the deep respect of many city
families. He has made children a priority in his work and was an investigator
for 14 years with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, specializing in
bias crime and gangs. Before that, he was a Neptune police officer from 1980
to 1987.
Steve Herman, Asbury Tower,1701 Ocean Ave
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