Daily News | Lower Merion’s police union passed a unanimous vote of no-confidence in its chief
The union representing the Lower Merion Police Department on Tuesday passed a unanimous vote of no confidence against the township’s police chief and is calling for his removal, officials announced Wednesday.
Tensions have been simmering in the suburban department since July, when a high-ranking lieutenant admitted to providing test answers to a cadet candidate who passed the oral portion of the officer’s exam with unusually high accuracy. After being questioned by command staff, that lieutenant admitted to “overly coaching” the recruit, who was then disqualified from becoming an officer.
“If McGrath takes a shine to you, you’re golden,” said a 20-year veteran of the department, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation by McGrath and township officials. “It’s incestuous, the way they promote from within. There are never any new ideas.” The testing company retained by the township has safeguards in place to ensure that test scores aren’t tampered with, according to McGrath, and it had not identified “any abnormalities” in any of the 17 other recruits who took the test this summer. He noted that those candidates still had other tests to pass before becoming officers, including background checks and polygraph testing.
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