Waterboro residents could vote to have no dedicated law enforcement coverage…….

Town select board members voted ought not to pass this year’s vote to renew the town’s contract.

 

“If the deputies are responding to other calls in other towns for routine calls, that’s not what the contract states,” Waterboro Town Administrator Matt Bors said.

 

Bors claims their contract requires the deputies to cover Waterboro and only Waterboro.

 

But the deputies also patrol nearby York County towns on routine and emergency calls, on what’s called “rural patrol.”

 

If voters choose not to renew the contract, Waterboro would still receive rural patrol from contracted officers in other towns.

 

 

A town in Maine could soon have no dedicated law enforcement coverage. (WGME)

 

“There’s two deputies working 40 hours a week. There’s more than 80 hours in a week. There’s more than one call at a time. So there’s already calls being handled by rural patrol,” Bors said.

 

Bors does not believe Waterboro’s coverage would suffer if the contract goes unrenewed.