We have received a letter from someone complaining of our coverage and opinion on the Chief of the Dover, NJ, PD, admitting to being an alcoholic, and a judge ordering the Department to be have a group of "advisors" to help him run the Department:

"To whom it may concern.....Your article on the above subject is grossly inaccurate. Captain Harold Valentine is not an appointed advisor, and to date there has has only been appointed one advisor from the Morris County Prosecutor's Office. The article is a terrible injustice to the Dover Police Department and should be amended with the accurate information. The NJ Star Ledger had a pretty good article on the incident. In the interest of being responsible, please consider a change."

We won't change the story, but this update is appreciated. However, as stated in the article in the New York Times that we used for our source, the court initially ordered that three officers from the Dover PD (one of which was to be Capt. Valentine) were to be the advisors. If there was a change in this after the ruling by the court, Prosay didn't hear about it. If this reader is correct though, bringing in an overseer from the local Prosecutor's Office is nothing to be proud of. Frequently in New Jersey, a Prosecutor's representative is brought in to a department on allegations of wide-spread corruption or other major misdeeds. While this is not the case in Dover as far as we know, it only goes to what we said in the article that that managing a police department with one boss (Valentine) doing the work of at least two (Kelly and Valentine) isn't the wisest thing to do. Apparently someone was thinking the same as Prosay was, and knew that leaving Chief Kelly at the helm would serve no good purpose to the cops on the job or the community as a whole.

As far as any "terrible injustic" being committed, Prosay recommends that the reader ask the Dover town administrators and council just what exactly did they do to address and correct such a serious problem that the employees of the agency had to actually file court documents to attempt to correct it? Apparently nothing. As anyone who is a reader of this Police Review knows, we attempt to highlight "cops-as-pawns" situations reported in the press. Dover's problems certainly fills that requirement.