Petition to Combine the PGC and PFBC law enforcement components within the Pennsylvania State Police

We, the undersigned citizens of the great state of Pennsylvania, petition our elected officials to remove the law enforcement components of the PA Game Commission and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and place them within the Pennsylvania State Police. We further believe the current training of PGC and PFBC law enforcement personnel is antiquated and inadequate to properly address illegal game and fish violations while honoring the precious civil rights of our citizenry. We contend there has been a pattern of civil rights violations against our people, which often results in civil rights lawsuits against the Agency.

It is our belief that oversight and accountability by the management of PGC and PFBC is greatly lacking permitting law enforcements violations of our civil rights to worsen with each passing year. Considering it is highly improbable that either Agency will take the necessary actions to reform itself, we see no better or faster method of ending the abuses against our citizens than to incorporate the PGC and PFBC law enforcement personnel within the framework of the Pennsylvania State Police.