Election 2013
Gary Cordner Announces Run for Macungie Mayor
Primary election to be held May 21
Democrat Gary Cordner, 61, a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University, has announced he will run for mayor of Macungie. Cordner served as a police officer in Ocean City, Md., and as the chief of the St. Michaels, Md., Police Department in the 1970s and 80s, and was a commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, the only national body that accredits police departments. He was a professor and served as dean of the College of Justice and Safety at Eastern Kentucky University, and wrote the textbook "Police Administration" which now in its eighth edition. He has studied, taught, and/or practiced policing and police administration his entire adult life. Cordner is currently a member…
Never A Dull Moment
8:40 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013
Not all of the PDs in the State do it. Obviously there has to be an area with sufficient truck traffic and a place to safely allow the officers to perform these checks within their jurisdiction, among other things. We have, or had the portable scales and the properly trained people and everything else in place to do them in the past. I too, want to see the officers sitting on Main St to help keep… more ›