Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police Department
Mount Joy Township & West Donegal
Township
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Established October 1st, 2003
Chief
Sam H Gatchell
III
155 Merts Drive
Elizabethtown, Pa 17022
(717) 367-8481 or 1-800-957-2677
fax (717) 367-3382
Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police serves the residents of West Donegal
Township and Mount Joy Township in the Northwest area of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. The combined area of the townships is approx 46 square miles,
which includes significant business districts and industrial districts serving
the middle to upper middle class residential areas with over 17,000 residents. NWLCRPD is currently composed of 15 Full-time Police officers,
2 Part-time
officers along with Police Chief Samuel Gatchell. The Regional Police department is
governed by a board of five commissioners, who are elected officials from each
of the two municipalities, each appoints 2 officials and a third is named on a
yearly rotating basis.
The department has numerous specially trained
officers who are assigned to specialized units within the department and the
County. These include the County Major Crimes unit, County Forensics Unit, also the
Northwest CRASH team, the first of Lancaster County, which is composed of six
Police Departments from the Northwest area of Lancaster County and used for all
serious vehicle accidents in the area. Several Officers are also members of the
W.R.A.P. Team, again the first of its kind within Lancaster County, is the
Warrant Recovery Action Program, which includes three municipalities involved in
tracking down and recovering outstanding wanted persons for each department,
which works hand and hand with District Justice Duncan's office.
NEXT
PUBLIC REGIONAL POLICE COMMISSION MEETING
TUESDAY, February 23rd, 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Held at: Mount Joy Township Building
155 Merts Drive,
Elizabethtown, Pa 17022
PUBLIC IS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND
Municipal Government Members
West Donegal Township Mount Joy Township
1 Municipal Drive
159 Merts Drive
Elizabethtown,
Pa 17022
Elizabethtown, Pa 17022
717-367-7178
717-367-8917
Board of Supervisors Board of Supervisors
Monthly Meeting: 1st Monday of each Month
Monthly Meeting: 3rd Monday of each Month
Next Meeting: Feb
1st, 2009 @ 7:00pm
Next Meeting: Feb 15th, 2009 @ 7:30pm
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