Township commissioners were informed of 89 candidates registered for the entry-level police examination, held in April at the Whitehall High School cafeteria, in a report by Mayor Edward D. Hozza Jr. at its meeting April 14.

Two new officers will be hired, one is a new position approved in the 2014 budget, the other slot will fill a retirement.

The mayor's report reflected one police officer remains off duty for a long-term injury, another officer remains inactive while on maternity leave and an officer who had been on light duty is now on sick leave.

And it doesn't end there. Another officer remains off duty due to a motor vehicle crash and two other officers were off duty for short-term sick leave.

Six township officers are assigned to the Lehigh Countywide Municipal Emergency Response Team. Team members, Hozza said, participated in two regular training days in March.

Police made 73 criminal arrests, issued 119 traffic citations, 21 parking tickets, 31 written reports, 127 nontraffic citations and wrote 1,119 initial reports.

As patrol officers began a wave of state-funded traffic enforcement overtime, targeted were motorists aggressively driving on MacArthur Road, resulting in nine citations issued between Lehigh street and Municipal Drive.

Another campaign was by the weigh team that had five details in March. There were 23 traffic citations issued to drivers of commercial motor vehicles for violations, along with two nontraffic citations for ordinance violations, two traffic violations and a warning to an operator of a non-commercial motor vehicle.