Craig Beach Mayor James Becker tells 21 News was his first priority to make sure his village had protection when calling 911.

After six officers quit the department all at once, he enlisted the help of Mahoning County Sheriff's officers to pick up some of the slack.

However, that still leaves the issue of everyday patrols.

The department still has two of it's patrolmen who work 20 hours a week but Becker said half of that time is spent in the office.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources also patrols the village around the lake so the mayor feels they're covered for now.

The next move will be for Becker to sit down with council members about what to do moving forward.

Becker said he doesn't know if reconciliation with the police department will happen or not but Sergeant Renatta Griffith, one of the officers who resigned, said if they were to come back, there would have to be some changes.

Stuck in the middle of all this, however, are the residents who said they need their village officers.

"They're all good officers, I've met every last one of them pretty much," Torrence Locke, a village resident said. "They do a good job out here. I don't know, I think whatever needs to be done to get them back, we need officers here," he said.

Other residents said they feel unsafe with all the uncertainty surrounding a lack of village officers.

"I'm scared. I'm scared for the summer months that are coming because that is our busiest months when we are overcrowded and overrun by people. We need a police force," Rachael Thomas, a village resident, said. "These officers were amazing. These officers spent time with you, if you had an issue no matter what it was they came back and they spoke with you again like the next week, they would come back and check in. They interacted with our children whihc is what you need," she said.

At this point, it's unclear when Mayor Becker will be meeting with council again to discuss next steps.