Vega Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

The question concerns the propriety of the dismissal from office of Henry Vega, a Chief of Police in the Borough of Burgettstown, Washington County, by the Council of the Borough under the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1951, P. L. 586, regulating police tenure in boroughs and other designated municipalities having a police force of less than three members.

Vega became a policeman in 1947, and Chief in 1950 of a police force in the Borough consisting of himself and one other officer. In February, 1954, the Burgess and Police Committee of the Council…