Throughout my undergraduate career at Kean University,
I was an active member in the
National Criminal Justice Honor Society, Alpha Phi Sigma.
Once ​graduating from Kean, I was fortunate to be ​accepted
into the alternate route program for police officers.
You go through the ​police ​academy, basically unsponsored.
Once you get into the academy,
you’re training hand​ in​ hand with individuals that are
employed by municipal police departments​ ​receiving the same exact training.
I came back to Kean while working
with the Borough of Roselle Park municipal police department,
achieved my master's in criminal justice,
​m​ade the jump over to the City of Elizabeth Police Department,
and now I’m back here at Kean.
You could almost say it’s full circle ​- ​being an adjunct professor and
trying to be the mentor that my professors were to me.
My name is Richard Hernandez Jr.,
I’m a police officer with the City of Elizabeth Police Department​,​
and I’m also a Kean Alum.
