At their February meeting, the West Marlborough supervisors said they have been talking to the East Marlborough supervisors about continuing their police services arrangement. Since 2008, West Marlborough has contracted with East Marlborough to receive 40 hours of service a month; that has been provided by Chief Robert "Clarkie" Clarke. West Marlborough was going to discontinue the arrangement at the end of 2015, but several West Marlborough residents objected.
As Supervisor Bill Wylie explained, "A lot of people really value some sort of police presence in the township ... having somebody to call would be very useful and reassuring."
Under a new "on-call" agreement being contemplated, Mr. Wylie said, the officer who responded to a West Marlborough resident's phone call might be Clarkie or one of East Marlborough's two part-time officers. Residents have said they would be fine with that.
At the February meeting Clarkie presented his statistics for the service he provided to West Marlborough in 2015: 84 days worked, 480 hours worked, 204 incidents handled, 265 calls to 911 received, 89 speeding tickets issued, 24 parking tickets, six stop-sign violations, two tickets for driving without a license, two tickets for driving an unregistered vehicle, one ticket for passing in a no-passing zone, one ticket for careless driving and 63 warnings.
For January 2016, he handled 21 incidents, received 26 calls to 911 and issued eight citations (two for speeding, three for running a stop sign, one for an inspection violation and two for parking).
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