Camp Hill Police Officer Derrick Coley was terminated by at Monday’s Camp Hill meeting by Mayor Ezell Smith without a vote or conformation by the council.
This comes on the heels of a rocky relationship between former and now Police Chief Johnny Potts and Smith.
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