YEADON, Pa. - The Yeadon Borough Council is expected to vote Thursday on the future of Police Chief Anthony ‘Chachi’ Paparo days after he claimed that the newly-elected council members will remove him because he is white.
Paparo has led the Yeadon Borough Police Department for the past three years and his crime-fighting strategies have garnered praise from the community and Mayor Rohan K.
Hepkins. "If you could clone him that's who people would want - chiefs, mayors, chief executives - would want around the country because he has decreased crime while being under budget," Hepkins said. "You'd be hard-pressed to find that type of performance, during the pandemic, crime went down."Paparo said he started hearing rumblings that the borough council was going to fire him when his contract expired in January.
He originally dismissed the idea that he would be removed from his post, then says he was met with a stirring accusation."Residents were coming to me, various people were coming to me, and say they're going to fire me in January.