Nearly five weeks after Thomas Dellane stepped out of the police chief’s office inside the Stafford Township municipal complex for the last time, the township council officially named his successor on April 2.

Following a unanimous affirmative vote amid a room full of family, friends and colleagues, James Haldenwang was promoted and sworn in as chief. Haldenwang, who had overseen the police department’s operations during Dellane’s absences, either when he was out of town for police-related…