Ordinance Helps Hiring Process for Law Enforcement

Hiring and retaining law enforcement officers is a problem across the country in many small communities. Guest Alok Patnaik, a Salisbury Township (PA) Commissioner talks with host Tate Blanchard about passing an ordinance that allows the township to speed up the process of hiring police officers and has allowed them to be 100 percent staffed, and he explains the Juvenile Restorative Probation Program. Recorded at the 2023 Municipal Leadership Summit in Bethlehem, PA - a partnership between the Pennsylvania Municipal League, the PA State Association of Township Commissioners, and the PA Career Fire Chiefs Association. salisburytownshippa.org