Hilltown has added a new officer to its police department.
Peter Nicholas Labosh was sworn in at the Sept. 25 Hilltown Board of Supervisors public meeting by local District Judge Regina Armitage. His rank is patrolman.
Labosh attended the Pennsylvania State Police Northwest Training Academy for his Act 120 certification in 2019, officials said. For three years, he served as an officer with the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, according to Hilltown police. That experience will prove valuable, asserted Hilltown Police Chief Christopher Engelhart.
“As a Fish & Boat Commission officer, he worked in Upper Bucks County and has resided in the area for six years,” Engelhart noted. “This experience and knowledge should help him transition fairly quickly from our field training program into being a self-sufficient officer.”
During the spring, Hilltown hired two police officers to fill vacancies, Ryan Thomas Miller and Deslyn Weaver. Miller is an Army veteran with prior police experience, while Weaver is a 2022 graduate of the Montgomery County Police Academy who formerly worked in the health care field.
With Labosh coming aboard, the Hilltown Township Police Department now has 19 officers, including the chief. “Our staffing level is now back to what we had in the mid-2000s,” he noted.
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