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ESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO DEDICATES PHOTO OF FIRST POLICE ACADEMY DIRECTOR IN LOBBY OF ESSEX COUNTY POLICE ACADEMY Henry T. Lyons was a Driving Force to have Academy Built in 1975

09 Dec ESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO DEDICATES PHOTO OF FIRST POLICE ACADEMY DIRECTOR IN LOBBY OF ESSEX COUNTY POLICE ACADEMY Henry T. Lyons was a Driving Force to have Academy Built in 1975

Posted at 23:01h in Press Release by

Published on December 9, 2019

 

PHOTO CAPTION

Cedar Grove, NJ – Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. (third from left) dedicated a photograph of the late Henry T. Lyon, who served as the first director of the Essex County Police Academy in Cedar Grove, at the Police Academy on Monday, December 9th. With the County Executive are (from left) Lyon’s family friend Ro Peach, current Essex County Police Academy Director Anthony Perillo, Lyon’s grandson John Lyon, Rex and Barbara Jablonski (Lyon’s daughter and her husband), family friend Barry Wallace, Lyon’s grandson Kevin Lyons and family friend Mary Wallace. Lyon served as Director of the Essex County Police Academy from 1971 to 1982 and was instrumental in having the current facility on Grove Street in Cedar Grove opened in 1975. The photo of Lyon is hanging in the lobby of the Academy. (Photo courtesy of Essex County)