SOUTH HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. â The South Heidelberg Township Police Department has now been patrolling the streets of Robesonia, Wernersville and Heidelberg Township for nearly a year â a long and difficult year. We ve been dealing with the COVID virus outbreak and dealing with that, said Chief Leon Grim, so there s definitely been a lot of challenges for a first-year police department, not only to absorb the extra coverage area, but as well deal with all these issues.
The department brought on five new officers â three of them veteran officers. With the COVID situation, we had a couple incidents where the response time was critical, and if we wouldn t have had the 24/7 coverage, I think the situation would have ended badly, said David Randler, the chairman of Heidelberg Township s board of supervisors.