Camden Select Board meeting grows heated over police budget

Camden Select Board meeting grows heated over police budget

CAMDEN, Maine — Robert’s Rules of Order seemed inadequate to the task of containing passions at Tuesday night’s Select Board meeting as townspeople and board members argued openly over the issue of the Camden Police Department’s future. The tension came even as town leaders agreed to maintain the status quo of keeping the local police department and hiring a police chief, rather than contract policing services through the Knox County Sheriff’s O…