The Lower Gwynedd Township Board of Supervisors voted to approve the promotion of their police force sergeant Bruce Hames to lieutenant during a special meeting on June 25, according to the Ambler Gazette.
The board Chairwoman Kathleen Hunsicker noted that Hames first served in Lower Gwynedd’s police force in 1985 along with Paul Kenny, who is now the township’s police chief. Previous to that Hames started as a police officer in Ambler in 1977, making for a combined 35 years of service in the force.
Lieutenant Hames, who graduated from the FBI’s Command Institute for Law Enforcement Executives, has been a SWAT officer for 27 years and is now a Central Montgomery County SWAT team deputy commander, according to Hunsicker.
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District Judge Robert Sobek swore in lieutenant Hames in front of his family. Hames said his thanks in his speech. “I won’t let you down,” he said.
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