Atlantic County Prosecutor Named 'Prosecutor Of The Year'

MAYS LANDING, NJ — Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner will receive the 2021 Prosecutor Of The Year Award from the New Jersey Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association.

Tyner will accept the award at the annual NJEOA conference luncheon to be held in September in Atlantic City.

“I would like to thank the New Jersey Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association for recognizing me and the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office for our effort to make our community safer and healthier,” Tyner said in a statement.

“I recognized early in my tenure as the Atlantic County Prosecutor that our agency needed more resources if we were going to effectively disrupt drug trafficking. Through our collaboration with our federal, state, and local partners and our inclusion in the Liberty Mid-Atlantic High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (LMHIDTA), we have been able to identify and prosecute some of the most dangerous drug dealers operating in our region.”

Atlantic County was designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) through the federally funded HIDTA program in October 2018.

The purpose of the HIDTA program is to reduce drug trafficking and production in the United States by:

• Facilitating cooperation among Federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to share information and implement coordinated enforcement activities;
• Enhancing law enforcement intelligence sharing among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies;
• Providing reliable law enforcement intelligence to law enforcement agencies to facilitate the design of effective enforcement strategies and operations; and
• Supporting coordinated law enforcement strategies that make the most of available resources to reduce the supply of illegal drugs in designated areas
• of the United States and in the nation as a whole.

The NJNEOA has more than 2,000 members representing federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement, as well as private industry, the professions, education and government.

The NJNEOA was organized to encourage mutual cooperation, discussion and interest in the problems of enforcement concerning drug abuse, and to exchange ideas, conduct seminars and conferences to educate those involved in the abatement of the illegal narcotic trade.

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