Former Head of New Rochelle Special Investigations Unit Selected as Small Town Police Chief in PA

Written By: Robert Cox

William Olszewski, a detective sergeant with the New Rochelle Police Department for 28 years, has been selected to be the new police chief in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. The tiny town of less than 2,000 residents, is 30 miles West of Scranton, PA just south of Binghamton, NY.

Olszewski told the Times-Tribune that he and his wife will probably move to Tunkhannock in about a month.

Olszewski is the officer who “escorted” Bernis Shapiro out of City Hall when she “retired” last year:

Sources tell Talk of the Sound that Detective Sergeant William Olszewski, head of the Special Investigations Unit of the New Rochelle Police Department was called to City Hall as part of the process of “suddenly retiring” Shapiro. Olszewski, not in uniform, waited in the City Manager’s office suite “just in case” while Shapiro packed up after she was informed of her “sudden retirement” by Strome. Shortly after Shapiro left so did Olszewski. Meanwhile, another police officer was stationed outside the building, near Shapiro’s car, to make sure she was not taking any City documents with her.

Wikipedia: Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

Tunkhannock is a borough in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Wilkes-Barre. In the past, lumbering was carried on extensively. The chief industry was tanning and there were spool and tub factories, furnaces and machine shops, stave and planing mills, and witch hazel distilleries. Today, many residents are employed by the Procter & Gamble plant nearby. In 1900, 1,305 people lived here, and in 1910, 1,598 people lived here. As of the 2000 census, the borough population was 1,911. It is the county seat of Wyoming County.