Delegation OKs vote on police force

Carroll voters would decide the fate of a hotly contested countywide police force under a measure being drafted by the county?s State House delegation.

The delegation measure, which would need General Assembly approval, would make moot the county commissioners? vote to move to a countywide force. Commissioners had planned to scale back the role of the sheriff?s office and eliminate Maryland?s last Resident Trooper program, in which state police help patrol the county.