Morrisville Borough officials last week held a “special” Council meeting to approve the hiring of a new full-time police officer.
Officials announced that the borough had hired Matthew Morse as a full-time officer. Council approved the hiring 5-0 (three members did not attend the meeting.
The apparent urgent need to approve the hiring of Morse was not discussed.
This hire will get us back up to strength after losing Officer August to Lower Makefield, Chief of Police Rich Ciampa said in a Tuesday e-mail exchange.
The borough has been staffing up the police department, years after a commissioned DCED Police study cited understaffing as a persistent and ongoing issue within the borough as a public safety issue.
Ciampa has been able to add now two full time police officers in 2025 with the hiring of Morse.
Veteran police officer Kevin DiPaolo joined the department this past July.
Ciampa with the full throated support of Council is in the process of creating the borough and the police department and additional income stream with the police department becoming a certified booking station in the near future which is a project he initiated, officials said in late 2024.
A sally port is also in the works for the police station which will continue with the new look and feel theme the police department as whole has been operating under since Ciampa’s hiring a little more than 14 months ago.
Ciampa said he hopes to have Morse begin training sometime next week adding “growth is good”