Barr v. Pine Township Board of Supervisors

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Presently before us is the appeal of William E. Barr (Appellant) whose sixty day suspension as a police officer by the Pine Township Board of Supervisors (Board) was sustained by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.

On December 8, 1972, Appellant, the only member of the five man police force on duty, received a telephone call reporting that the Pine Township Junior High School was the object of a bomb threat. Appellant unsuccessfully attempted to contact the police chief, and in ac*257cordance with established procedure, he contacted Sergeant Herr, the next…