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Hampton Dunes Police Constabulary consists of approximately 12 members, including a department commissioner and two sergeants. The members are certified as
467:. Almost immediately after incorporation, Gary Vegliante, the village's first and to date only mayor, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for $ 200 million. The Corps settled the suit and began replenishing the beach leading to a building boom on what had been a devastated empty section of beach.
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