Four New Officers Have Joined The Ranks Of The Abington Township Police Department

ABINGTON, PA — Four new police officers have joined the ranks of the Abington Township Police Department.

Tim Connelly, Eliana Carino, Brandon Rucker and Nordia Henry are the latest officers to join Abington, a 92-member force which is one of the larger departments in suburban Philadelphia.

The department announced the hiring of the four newest members on Thursday.

"On behalf of the men and women of the Abington Township Police Department, congratulations, stay safe and best of luck to all of you," the department posted in a message on its Facebook page.

The department provided bios of each of the officers on its website and on social media.

Connelly, who is married with three kids, formerly served as a Philadelphia police officer for six years, working out of that department's 14th District.

Carino, too, was previously a Philadelphia police officer, having worked in the city for two years before coming to Abington. She is a U.S. Army veteran and speaks two languages. She also served as a military police officer at Guantanamo Bay.

Rucker, who is a Montgomery County native, worked as a personal trainer and was appointed to attend the Montgomery County Police Academy for what Abington says is an "intense six-month training program."

And Henry, the last of the four new hires, is a Philadelphia native who worked as a police officer in the city for five years before coming to Abington. An interesting tidbit about Henry is that she played professional basketball for three years in Lisbon, Portugal, Prague and the Czech Republic, according to her bio.