Township Looking into Installing Security Cameras

Business Administrator Tim Gordon said Tuesday night that the township has already talked to one vendor and has discussions lined up with others about putting in surveillance cameras at the train stations.

The township is also looking at putting them in at various locations downtown Gordon said.

The cameras would not be for traffic enforcement but, rather, he said, for security.

Gordon’s comments came after a resident asked what the township was doing to make the Short Hills train station safer after that occurred at 6:20 a.m. on a weekday.

Millburn Police report that a commuter mugged and carjacked at the Short Hills train station by four men who had just stolen a Land Rover from a house on Slope Drive.

Two men in the Land Rover followed by two men in a 2002 Subaru pulled up to the Municipal Lot #3 at the Short Hills Train station, where, police said, they jumped from those cars and brandished firearms at a resident in a 2011 Mercedes Benz.

They demanded his wallet and his car and took off with both at high speeds and were witnessed by an off-duty police officer speeding through downtown Millburn a few minutes later.

The off-duty officer followed the cars and advised the police department of the whereabouts of the vehicles. The Subaru broke down and the suspects bailed out of that car and got into the other two and got away.

Gordon said he would talk to other vendors and bring the township committee a proposal in January.

In other business, the township committee spent three hours hearing testimony and deliberating on whether La Cucina di Clemenza should get a liquor license before denying the application.

They also said goodbye to Jim Suell, who attended his last committee meeting Tuesday night. For more on these stories, check back with Patch later today.