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.