Stafford Township Community Policing Officer Anthony Vincent didn’t even have his uniform on yet as his workday began Friday, Aug. 8.

“I was pulling into the lot, and I was dressed for my morning workout before I started my shift,” said Vincent, who had planned to go out for a run. “The call came in at about 6:55 a.m., about a dog that was in a lagoon, and I just took off and went to the house.”

As he arrived at the scene on Eileen Lane in the Beach Haven West section of the township, officers Nicholas Fabrizzio…