Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners at their quarterly meeting Oct. 26 heard complaints about how the agency was handling a looming combination of its law enforcement staff with the Game Commission’s game wardens from a spokesman for the union that represents the officers.
Mark Kerr, a vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 114, which represents more than 300 wardens and waterways conservation officers (WCOs) with the two commissions, warned the commissioners that the lack of transparency around the coming consolidation was a problem.
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