SANATOGA PA – The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to meet with Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township police Lt. Michael Foltz … and his chief last week said that’s a good thing.

FBI National Academy in Virginia.

Foltz is the second township law enforcement representative selected in recent years by the FBI to participate in its prestigious National Academy in Quantico VA. A letter from Special Agent and National Academy Coordinator Gerard O’Callaghan, inviting Foltz to attend, was received Aug. 31 by Chief Michael Shade.

Foltz will train with the FBI from Jan. 9-March 18, 2011. Shade himself attended similar training in 2008.

“It’s quite an honor, and it tells you how good Mike is,” the chief said of Foltz during the township Board of Commissioners‘ meeting Sept. 7 in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA. “He’s got the qualifications they (the FBI) are always looking for,” Shade noted.

In other, unrelated police department news:

• The board unanimously approved Shade’s request to make a conditional offer of employment to James Kenney to become Lower Pottsgrove’s newest police officer. He would succeed Ofc. Alan Edlund, who recently retired. Kenney’s name topped a list of officer candidates chosen last month by the township Civil Service Commission. The offer is conditioned upon Kenney’s passage of department-required tests.

• Shade also won board approval to have township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway review a proposed procedure for adding fire police officers to the ranks of the Sanatoga and Ringing Hill fire companies. The policy covers a variety of checks and requirements, including background investigations, Shade said. The policy will be considered for board adoption following Holloway’s review.

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ meeting of Sept. 7):

• Lower Pottsgrove Officer Chosen For FBI Academy
• Township Approves Planning Map Changes
• Commissioners OK Tax-Reduction District Research
• ‘Patient Investigator’ Township’s Officer Of The Year
• Lower Pottsgrove To PennDOT: Good Job, Guys
• Township Examines Tax-Break District Potential

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