Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A five month search ends with an announcement Wednesday morning.
Anthony DiGiaimo can now drop the word "Acting" Superinendent of Tredyffrin Township Police from his title. The 23-year veteran of the department has been officially named the new Superindent of the Tredyffrin Township Police Department. Giaimo, who has held been acting Superintendent since the beginning of the year, replaces Andrew Chambers who retired suddenly at the end of 2011. Giaimo will be officially sworn in at the Board of Supervisors meeting on May 14. He was chosen from a field of ten candidates that was eventually narrowed to three finalists. Click on the pdf to read the official announcement from Board Chairwoman Michele Kichline, who is also part of the personnel committee that screened the applicants. About the new chief …
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A decision is expected by "early summer."
The search for a new Tredyffrin Police Chief has been narrowed to three finalists, according to the Chairwoman of the Township Board of Supervisors. Michelle Kichline tells Patch that Acting Superintendent Anthony Giaimo is one of three finalists who will be part of a second round of interviews for the job. Kichline says the other two candidates, who she did not identify, are from outside the department. The job opened up after the sudden retirement of former Superintendent Andrew Chambers who left at the end of 2011. Chambers decided to retire from the department after being suspended he allowed his son (who had only a learner's permit) to drive a patrol vehicle on a closed training track. The teen damaged the vehicle in the incident …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
It was a minor accident with some major consequences.
Tredyffrin Township Police Cruiser 11 is back on the road after an accident that cost the Chief of Police $746.23 and, arguably, his job. Tredyffrin Police Superintendent Andrew Chambers' 16-year-old son was behind the wheel of Car 11 the day before Thanksgiving on a closed training course, with an instructor in the front seat ,when he got into what the repair costs would indicate was a minor fender bender. There has been nothing minor about the aftermath of the crash. The chief's son is not a police officer who is authorized or trained to drive a police vehicle. He doesn't have a driver's license. He does have a learner's permit. The car was towed from the training facility after the November 23 wreck and repaired at the Tredyffrin Public…
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Police Superintendent Andrew Chambers's decision takes Township Supervisors by surprise.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Tredyffrin Township Police Chief Andrew Chambers is scheduled to be back at work on Wednesday following a four day suspension imposed last week. But he won't be back on the job in the Tredyffrin Municipal Building for long. Chambers told Township Supervisors on Saturday that he will retire at the end of the year, essentially giving two week's notice after serving the township for 30 years. Chambers' decision to retire is just the latest development in what has been a three and a half week stretch of extraorindary developments in what is by all official accounts an otherwise exemplary career of public service. It began after Chambers' 16-year-old son got into a minor crash while driving a township police car on a closed training ground with…
Monday, December 19, 2011
Andrew Chambers' retirement announcement comes just before he is due to return to work after a four day suspension.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Tredyffrin Police Superintendent Andrew Chambers has decided to retire at the end of the year. The resignation was announced "with mixed emotion" Monday night by Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Lamina. Chambers is due to return to work Wednesday after serving a four day suspension without pay following an incident in which his teenage son crashed a township police car while driving on a closed training course with an instructor in the vehicle. The announcement came during Monday's Board of Supervisor's first public meeting since the suspension was imposed. The announcement of Chambers' decision to retire came after Lamina outlined a series of executive sessions of the board that led up to the suspension. The board …
An anonymous letter sheds new light on the investigation into the events that led to the Tredyffrin Police superintendent being suspended for four day but some of the allegations are unfounded.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
An unsigned letter sent to the Chairman of the Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors sheds new light on the incident that led to the board suspending the township's police chief for four days last week. Tredyffrin Township's solicitor says this letter is what led to the investigation that resulted in a four day suspension of Tredyffrin Police Superintendent Andrew Chambers that began Wednesday, Dec. 14. The letter, received by Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Lamina, includes serious allegations made by a writer who appears to be a police department employee. The letter does not indicate whether the writer is a police officer or civilian and it does not indicate whether the writer was an actual witness to the incident. The chief's …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
A statement from the Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors voices support for Superintendent Andrew Chambers.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tredyffrin Township Supervisors have released a statement about the incident that led to the the four day suspension of Police Chief Andrew Chambers without pay. Township Manager Mimi Gleason tells TE Patch the Supervisors voted on the suspension in a closed executive session on Tuesday, December 13. Chambers, a highly regarded 30 year veteran of the force, was suspended the next day, Wednesday December 14. Township Solicitor Vince Donohue released this statement on behalf of the Board of Supervisors who made the decision to sanction Chambers with the suspension: PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS On November 23, during Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (“EVOC”) training in Bridgeport Borough for several of …
MrsB
9:31 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012
The best man got the job! Thank you for your past service and continued success for the future. Congratulations Superintendent Giaimo! more ›