Police Mourn Loss Of Retired Officer

Photo courtesy Jackson Police

JACKSON – Officers of the Jackson Police Department are mourning the loss of retired Police Officer Robert Farley #120.

  Police Chief Matthew Kunz said, “we join with his family members in mourning his loss.”

  Officer Farley passed away recently at his home in Florida at the age of 80.

  Farley was a veteran of the United States Navy and began his law enforcement career as a Special Law Enforcement Officer with the Jackson Police Department and was appointed as a full-time officer in December 1969.

Retired Jackson Police Officer Robert Farley recently died at the age of 80 at his home in Florida. (Photo courtesy Jackson Police)

  He graduated from the 119th municipal police class at the New Jersey State Police Academy in Sea Girt in 1970 and started as a patrol officer with the agency.

  Farley was a member of the Jackson P.B.A. Pistol Team and worked assignments in Patrol, the Traffic Safety Bureau and the Juvenile Bureau in the Detective Bureau before retiring in 1995.

  During his tenure, he received multiple letters of commendation and awards, including one in 1976 for disarming an armed subject and in 1989 for the apprehension of an escapee who was wanted for manslaughter and the Excellent Police Duty Ribbon.