Scotch Plains Hires Consultant for Police Department Merger
Mayor Mahr expressed disappointment when she originally learned of a consultant.
At the Oct. 16 Fanwood Council Meeting, Mayor Colleen Mahr announced that she learned Scotch Plains added an item to their agenda to hire a consultant on the issue of merging the police departments of both Scotch Plains and Fanwood. The two towns have been meeting for over a year to work out issues on whether it makes sense to merge the police departments of both towns into one. Mahr pointed out that she felt blindsided and that the two towns were supposed to meet for their usual police department merger meeting in only two days(Oct. 18). "I'm angry and frustrated by them, they could have discussed it with us on Thursday," she said. When speaking to Mahr she added that she understands Scotch Plains does not need Fanwood's approval when …
mrsp
9:24 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Oh my! I just had the oddest experience with the Scotch Plains Police Department -- some construction or utility work (on Park, going east, after the school) was resulting in an extremely dangerous left turn (from Pleasant Ave.) for detouring drivers, possible accident -- and assumed the police dispatcher would say, "thank you sir we will send an officer to attend to this". Instead I got the kind… more ›