Morrisville residents to organize groups to keep watch over borough neighborhoods
21st Century Media News Service
MORRISVILLE BOROUGH — The perceived lack of visible police manpower and reportedly two recent child abduction attempts has prompted residents to organize a borough-wide town watch program.
At the Sept. 16 borough council meeting, West Hendrickson Avenue resident Peter Eisengrein announced that plans are progressing to institute a neighborhood watch program to work closely with police.
“It’s for the safety of our children especially in light of the police manpower,” he said.
According to Eisengrein, a “kick-off meeting” is scheduled for Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Italian-American Club, 150 Harrison Ave. He encouraged residents to attend so that a program can get started. Several Morrisville police officers are scheduled to speak at the event.
Eisengrein also asked that a councilmember be appointed as a liaison with the group, once it is established.
More information is available on Facebook at: “Morrisville PA Town Watch.”
Several other residents of the more than 30 people who attended the meeting also called on council to increase the police presence in the borough.
“We have people coming over here, and it’s not only the people from Trenton ... we have enough idiots in this town,” lamented Scott Robinson of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Another resident, a mother of four, criticized the lack of police around schools, especially with the reports of attempted child abductions in Morrisville.
“We have someone who appears to be a very serious predator,” she exclaimed. “I used to walk constantly with my children, now I don’t feel safe. I moved here to the suburbs to feel safe.”
Last month, council approved the hiring of three full-time police officers to fill vacancies created by retirements and sick leave. Full-time officer Wayne Apice officially retired Sept. 10.
Currently, Morrisville, which has a population of roughly 8,700, has eight full-time and four part-time officers. However, manpower levels have recently dropped and several part-times have resigned.
To facilitate the hiring, borough council agreed to use the Bucks County Consortium, a non-profit group which helps screen police applicants for municipalities, and administers written and physical testing of the candidates.
The names of qualified individuals will then be given to the borough’s Civil Service Commission so the candidates can be interviewed. The commission will then make its hiring recommendations to borough council, which has the final say.
“Everyone will soon feel the presence of a full police force in Morrisville,” said Mayor Rita Ledger who had been pushing council to hire more officers.
Meanwhile, Borough Manager Tom Bates said that the process to hire a new police chief is also progressing, and that more than 20 individuals have already applied by the Aug. 30 deadline.
Morrisville has hired the search-firm CityBurbs Group, which is run by Lower Makefield Township Police Chief Ken Coluzzi, to help vet candidates for the position, which reportedly pays between $85,000 to $90,000, depending on experience.
According to Bates, CityBurbs will narrow the list of applicants to six candidates, with borough council eventually interviewing the top three jobseekers.
Eisengrein also asked that a councilmember be appointed as a liaison with the group, once it is established.
More information is available on Facebook at: “Morrisville PA Town Watch.”
Several other residents of the more than 30 people who attended the meeting also called on council to increase the police presence in the borough.
“We have people coming over here, and it’s not only the people from Trenton ... we have enough idiots in this town,” lamented Scott Robinson of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Another resident, a mother of four, criticized the lack of police around schools, especially with the reports of attempted child abductions in Morrisville.
“We have someone who appears to be a very serious predator,” she exclaimed. “I used to walk constantly with my children, now I don’t feel safe. I moved here to the suburbs to feel safe.”
Last month, council approved the hiring of three full-time police officers to fill vacancies created by retirements and sick leave. Full-time officer Wayne Apice officially retired Sept. 10.
Currently, Morrisville, which has a population of roughly 8,700, has eight full-time and four part-time officers. However, manpower levels have recently dropped and several part-times have resigned.
To facilitate the hiring, borough council agreed to use the Bucks County Consortium, a non-profit group which helps screen police applicants for municipalities, and administers written and physical testing of the candidates.
The names of qualified individuals will then be given to the borough’s Civil Service Commission so the candidates can be interviewed. The commission will then make its hiring recommendations to borough council, which has the final say.
“Everyone will soon feel the presence of a full police force in Morrisville,” said Mayor Rita Ledger who had been pushing council to hire more officers.
Meanwhile, Borough Manager Tom Bates said that the process to hire a new police chief is also progressing, and that more than 20 individuals have already applied by the Aug. 30 deadline.
Morrisville has hired the search-firm CityBurbs Group, which is run by Lower Makefield Township Police Chief Ken Coluzzi, to help vet candidates for the position, which reportedly pays between $85,000 to $90,000, depending on experience.
According to Bates, CityBurbs will narrow the list of applicants to six candidates, with borough council eventually interviewing the top three jobseekers.
9 comments:
Power to the people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHXhwbQRBc
Rita...Our own MINO. Is she a joke? Suddenly she's concerned? I think she's only concerned about herself and her reputation. Unfortunately for her, her reputation is already in tatters. She's a laughingstock to anyone who doesn't live in town, and our own great shame. Someone get her a Tanto.
I hope nobody pulls a Zimmerman.
I don't want any Zimmermans either but these hysterical parents playing Mrs. Kravitz make me think its coming.
Did Kravitz pack heat?
Why do you think they had to replace Dick York with Dick Sargent?
PEG BUNDY
You're going too fast, I can't... what was that? What was that? What was that?
AL BUNDY
A "Bewitched" with Dick York, not Dick Sargent, as Darrin, a "Gilligan" where the gorilla comes to the island, a "Full House" Christmas special where they get snowed in at the airport, and the mating habits of the Amazonian catfish with Phillipe, not Jacques Cousteau.
PEG BUNDY
You can see all that, but you can't see the rim around the toilet?
AL BUNDY
I see what I want to see.
LOL - love it! Thank you
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