During its first meeting of 2025, the Falls Supervisors added a new police officer to the Falls Township Police Department.
The board unanimously approved hiring Bensalem resident Zach Sherman, a U.S. Army National Guard veteran of eight years during Monday’s meeting.
Sherman, who graduated from the Philadelphia Police Department’s academy in December, served as a correction officer with the Bucks County Department of Corrections, most recently serving as the department’s administrative lieutenant.
Sherman holds an associate’s degree in police administration from Bucks County Community College and also received educational credits from Temple University and Holy Family University.
Supervisor Jeff Boraski said that other municipalities have their own testing processing for onboarding police officers and Falls should also.
“We want to hire the best of the best,” Boraski said. “As a board we can do better for our residents and start running our own process.”
“I agree,” Chairman Jeff Dence said.
Erin Mullen, the board’s vice chair, said that none of the board members had objected to changing the hiring process.
In Abington and Plymouth townships, officials pointed out that police departments received several hundred applications for openings.
Officials said they will work to refine the police hiring process.
