Capt. Edward Bernhard of the Long Beach Township Police Department stepped in for Chief Kevin Mahon on Monday, March 4 to conduct the swearing in of new officer Kelley Lutz during the municipality’s board of commissioners meeting. Lutz was joined for the ceremony by his brother Ryan Lutz, an officer with the Ocean City Police Department.

As Bernhard noted, Kelley Lutz is a graduate of Stockton University who first worked, and excelled, as a Class I and then a Class II officer with the township…