Body armor serves all police officers well even if safe place

Editor,

Your editorial of Sept. 27 concerning the need for OP Police to have body armor (bulletproof vests) is spot on.  To paraphrase you, this is not a knock on your editorial.

I would like to point out that the quiet and peacefulness of Ocean Pines notwithstanding, imagine – as difficult as that is – a shooting incident at one of the schools bordering OP or a quarter of a mile north on 589.

Which police department is the closest to these schools and would likely be the first to respond?

Jeff Mayne
(The writer is a retired chief investigator
with the Worcester County States Attorney’s Office.)