Northern York County Regional Police Department

As part of many firsts in the history of the agency, in 1970, The Governors Justice Commission, acting in concert with the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs, was solicited by several York County Municipalities to determine the need and feasibility of the consolidation of police services. Both agencies realized that police services in the Commonwealth had to be cost-effective to better serve socio-economic concerns of our community. To that end, funding to implement the delivery of police services was provided to the original five York County Municipalities (Dover Twp, Dover Borough, Wellsville Borough, Manchester Twp, & Paradise Twp) that agreed to participate in organizing the Northern York County Regional Police Department. Act 180, as passed by the General Assembly in 1972, served as the founding document for this new police entity. This act has come to be known as the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. It empowered these municipalities to delegate police powers to...