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Simeon N. Cumberbatch is a retired City of Hoboken New Jersey Police Captain over 35 years of increasingly responsible law enforcement experience. Serving in a supervisory capacity for 22 of his 29 years with the department, he accrued comprehensive knowledge in both uniformed and administrative disciplines. He was the department’s first minority to attain the supervisory/command ranks of sergeant, lieutenant and captain. Mr. Cumberbatch is certified by the New Jersey Police Training Commission to instruct at New Jersey’s police academies and was a lecturer with the Center for Law Enforcement Studies and The Key Testing Group. There, he helped groom individuals aspiring to attain positions ranging from patrolman to chief of police via the New Jersey State Department of Personnel competitive exams. Additionally, with Dr. Dominick Varricchio, Ph.D and Dr. Denis Connel, Ph.D, he taught a security program for the United Nations security staff. Captain Cumberbatch was the Hoboken Police Department’s first Internal Affairs Officer and was a founding member of the Department’s Motorcycle Squad. In the ten-year period between 1992 and his retirement Captain Cumberbatch was exclusively designated to serve as Acting Police Chief and was similarly hand-picked as Incident Commander during Op Sail 2000 the Millennium Celebration and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Mr. Cumberbatch developed, instituted and organized a supervisory training program for senior and newly appointed supervisory personnel, and formulated a training program entitled “Hoboken Police Dynamics”, that enabled the department’s personnel to garner instruction in conflict resolution, communication and cultural diversity.