Hancock v. Bd. of Supervisors

BROWN, J.,

In May, 1983, Charles Hale, then a member of the Board of Supervisors of Lower Gwynedd Township, this county, received a telephone call from a patrolman on the township’s police force. The officer requested a meeting to discuss what he considered to be illegal practices in the department. Several days later the two met and Hale was told that the township’s chief of police, Edward W. Hancock, had instituted certain scheduling practices which resulted in patrolmen being paid for days not worked. Hale thereafter investigated the matter on his own and later informed the township…