Many residents crowded the Duncansville Borough Council meeting Wednesday night, searching for answers concerning a police officer speeding through traffic signs in front of a school bus before school.

Kristina McIntire, the mother of a child who boarded that bus, asked the board about the officer’s employment status, to which board President Annette Lewis said it was a personnel matter.

After the meeting, McIntire said her aunt put McIntire’s 7-year-old son on the bus at 8 a.m. March 31. On Fourth Avenue and 12th Street, a borough police officer ran through the stop sign, cut in front of the bus and drove through a four-way intersection.

The officer waved in the video, which was recorded by Fullington Auto Bus Co. Fullington later delivered a traffic citation to the borough, she said. While the state police were notified, she guessed that nothing was done to stop the officer, as he is still employed.

She came to the meeting to hear more about the incident, but was not satisfied when council members told Richard Beard they couldn’t answer questions during his comment section.

“As a concerned parent, how do you get that answer? And from what they’re telling me, I don’t have a right to know,” she said.

Beard also took the stand at the meeting and asked council members why the officer didn’t turn himself in to the state police following the incident.

Lewis said public comment isn’t a question-and-answer period.

“This is borough council, that’s a personnel issue you’re asking about,” she said.

After his time was up, Beard told the board that he plans to get the Attorney General involved in the situation.

“OK, that’s your right,” Lewis said before proceeding with the public comment section.

Neither McIntire nor Beard disclosed the officer’s name.

Later in the meeting, more residents voiced their concerns about having an insufficient number of police officers patrolling the borough when adolescents were allegedly destroying private property.

Borough Manager Rodney Estep told the crowd that the borough has a part-time police department, limiting the number of on-duty officers.

“If the taxpayers are willing to fund a full-time police department, that is something you should talk to your council members about,” he said. “But with the resources that I have, I don’t have officers out at all hours of the night.”

Mirror Staff Writer Colette Costlow is at 814-946-7414.