SEAVILLE – On Saturday, June 19, two Cape May County Animal Control Officers working for Shore Animal Control graduated from the state SPCA Humane Law Enforcement Officer course. They are the only officers from Cape May County to graduate from this program. The two officers, Chelsea Lippincott and Karen Reinecke, are now performing criminal cruelty investigations for the AC SPCA. Graduating from this course will enable the two officers to work for the State SPCA and any other chapter of the SPCA in the future.
The course was an eight-week intensive training program that covers all aspects of animal neglect and cruelty. It also involves self-defense training to allow officers to be able to handle dangerous situations which involve residents and animals.
Officer Chelsea Lippincott, a resident of Mullica, has been working for Shore Animal Control for the past two years. Lippincott comments, “I became an animal control officer because of my passion for animals and my desire to be able to save animals. The amount of neglect I have seen in my few years of being an ACO prompted me to want to become a cruelty investigator as well. This training was extremely valuable to me to be able to assess neglect situations and try to help the animals.”
Cape May County currently has no SPCA chapter and relies on the New Jersey State SPCA for most investigations in the county. Shore Animal Control has two other NJ State Animal Cruelty Investigators on staff for Cape May County investigations in the municipalities they service.
Officer Holly Gavrilow is the appointed ACI for Woodbine and Upper Township. Shore Animal Control currently services the following municipalities in Cape May County: Upper Township, Woodbine, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, North Wildwood, Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor and Lower Township.
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