Kingston police Sgt. Sam Blaski, the longtime leader of the local Fraternal Order of Police union, recently retired along with several other veteran officers from the Wyoming Valley, signaling a changing of the guard in the profession.
Wilkes-Barre City police Chief Joseph Coffay retired to take over as the top cop in the upstart West Side Regional Police.Two veteran city officers Bernard Magagna and Dana Cope, who joined the force together in March 2008, just retired as well.
Within the last year, two Back Mountain police chiefs James Drury in Dallas Borough and Doug Higgins in Dallas Twp. called it a career.