Dear Editor:
Thankfully, Spring Lake’s six-year old Anna Cardelfe is home and safe after being kidnapped. This is good time to stress the message that our neighborhoods are safer when people who live and work in an area are aware of what is going on around them.
To support this effort, PSE&G and all electric and gas utilities in New Jersey have created ChildWatch programs. If a child is lost, injured or feels threatened, they can approach one of over 5,300 PSE&G vehicles or enter a PSE&G customer service center for assistance. The vehicles are equipped with two-way radios so PSE&G can contact the police. PSE&G employees will wait outside of the vehicle with the child until the police arrive.
PSE&G worked with public safety officials and police departments throughout the state to help create safer neighborhoods for our children. ChildWatch is designed to support and supplement the police department and other community safety programs, not to replace them.
Identifiable markings on PSE&G vehicles include orange and yellow stripes, the PSE&G logo, which includes a large “energy burst” and every PSE&G vehicle carries a ChildWatch sticker on both sides.
PSE&G urges parents to occasionally ask children if they have noticed any PSE&G vehicles in the neighborhood and to let them know that the PSE&G employees who work in those trucks and vans can help them. PSE&G has a commitment to helping to make our communities safe.
For more information on ChildWatch or energy issues, please visit the website at www.pseg.com.
Richard Dwyer
PSE&G, Hackensack