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===Law enforcement=== Negotiations to merge the Bergen County Police Department with the Sheriff's Office began in 2015, and were finally completed in 2021. The county Police Department was created in 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2015/01/tedesco_signs_agreement_to_move_bcpd_under_sheriff_saudino.html|title=Bergen County begins merger of its police force and sheriff department|last=Kleimann|first=James|website=nj.com|date=January 2, 2015|access-date=January 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/news/done-and-done-former-bergen-county-police-now-officially-sheriffs-officers/804968/|title=Done and Done, Former Bergen County Police now officially sheriffs officers|last=DeMarco|first=Jerry|website=dailyvoice.com/|date=March 12, 2021|access-date=March 12, 2021}}</ref> The Bergen County court system consists of a number of municipal courts handling [[traffic court]] and other minor matters, plus the Bergen County Superior Court which handles more serious offenses. Law enforcement at the county level includes the Bergen County Sheriff's Office and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Bergen County's first female [[police chief]] took office in September 2015, as police chief of Bergenfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pix11.com/2015/09/01/history-made-first-female-police-chief-named-in-bergen-county/|title=History made: First female police chief named in Bergen County|author=Dan Mannarino|publisher=WPIX|date=September 1, 2015|access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref> In August 2015, a [[brand]]ing campaign was launched to highlight county government services, with its centerpiece being the official [[seal (emblem)|seal]] of Bergen County, depicting a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] settler shaking hands with a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]. The county's contemporaneous executive James Tedesco made an approximately $5,000 private donation to initiate the effort in the form of a nine-foot rendering of this seal woven into the carpet of the county executive's office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/exec-tedesco-helps-pay-for-new-carpet-with-bergen-county-seal-in-his-office-1.1392162|title=Branding Bergen County: Official Bergen seal to be centerpiece of campaign|author=John C. Ensslin|work=northjersey.com|date=August 14, 2015|access-date=August 14, 2015}}</ref> {{NJhighlands|A portion of the northwestern area of the county, comprising the municipalities of [[Oakland, New Jersey|Oakland]] and [[Mahwah, New Jersey|Mahwah]],|preservation=some}}
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