Reflecting on Integrity

Let’s be honest, a county’s police force, including the board, must maintain the highest moral integrity in order to uphold the law in the community.
When corruption enters a police force, at any level, it is a detriment to the community at large.

As community members we should expect nothing less than discipline, integrity, and honor from the police department, including the board.

For example, what would a police officer do if he caught a relative of a board member breaking the law? Would they let that person off because he or she fears losing their job and their family’s livelihood?

Unfortunately the officers of the Mifflin County Police Department may have to face that reality some day. Another more sinister possibility exists that officers would target those individuals who publically opposed the board’s firing of Herkert.

Will they become targets? Will the board’s lack of moral integrity stop with the firing of Chief Herkert?

Chief Herkert’s dismissal goes much further than one man and his family losing its livelihood. It can and will affect us all.