HARRISBURG - The Senate Transportation Committee is turning the controversial issue of state police coverage fees on its head. For the past 15 years, governors and lawmakers have kicked around the idea of charging municipalities an annual fee if they rely on law enforcement protection from state police troopers because they lack their own police department. Christine Tartaglione, D-Philadelphia, and John Rafferty, R-Collegeville, are pushing legislation to deprive municipalities without police departments of the local one-half share of fines from tickets issued by state troopers in that municipality. The transportation panel which Rafferty chairs approved a bill last week to end that revenue distribution to some 1,200 municipalities that provide less than 40 hours a week of local police coverage through its own force or as part of a regional police force. They would earmark it to help pay for the state police cadet training classes left without funding in the 2009-10 state budget. read more
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