Anthony Ferraioli, President
As a teenager, Anthony Ferraioli had thoughts about becoming a police officer, influenced by friends’ older brothers on the Hackensack police force. Apparently, his interest was more than fleeting. After graduating from St. Peter’s College in Jersey City with a Bachelor of Science degree in business marketing and management, he stunned his family by taking the police test.
A nearly 20-year veteran of the Hackensack Police Department, Officer Ferraioli has a resume of over 50 commendations and close to 1,500 arrests (including serial bank robbers and major drug dealers).
A local product of Hackensack High School, where he played football, wrestled and ran track, Ferraioli was born and raised in the First Ward of Hackensack’s south end in a two-family frame house on Old Hoboken Road.
It is a commitment he has shown during his entire life. While a student at St. Peter’s College, he passed the FBI exam and was summoned for the job, only to be rejected for lack of law enforcement experience. Not to be deterred, he took the Department of Corrections and Police Department exams upon college graduation and was called immediately by corrections. After spending three years on the waiting list, he was called to the Hackensack Police Department in 1990.
During his nearly 20 years on the force, he has taken thousands of criminals off Hackensack’s streets. Ferraioli has served in several divisions, including patrol, housing and narcotics. During four years of service in the detective ranks, he conducted investigations that led to thousands of arrests involving illegal guns and drugs.
Ferraioli has received training and taken special courses administered by the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and U.S. Customs Service on drug smuggling, money laundering, border patrol, sex crimes and fraud investigations, child abuse and neglect, surveillance techniques, electronic equipment and handguns.
He is the recipient of the State PBA’s top honors, the Gold Valor Award and Meritorious Award; Bergen County Chiefs Association’s Combat Cross, and FBI’s Meritorious Achievement Award for his outstanding police work. Prior to joining the Hackensack Police Department, he served as a Correction Officer at the Trenton State Prison, where he also was a union shift representative for 240 Correction Officers.
Ferraioli lives in New Milford and has three children, ages 8, 1 and a newborn.
