Wyoming Area Regional Police Department.

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History is being made in Luzerne County as the first-ever Regional Police Department is about to hit the streets. The new department will combine five police departments into one. This will be the headquarters for the new Wyoming area regional police department, the former home of the State Police Troop P.

Chief Pace is the chief of the New Wyoming Area Regional Police Department. Pace will run the new police force that combines the police departments of Exeter, Exeter Township, Wyoming, West Wyoming, and West Pittston. It will be based at the former state police barracks on Wyoming Avenue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fi...uzerne-county/

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[tallbump]

Interesting.

[Walleye Hunter]

Calling that history is bullshit, we already have several regional police departments around here.

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Link broken; redirects to general MSN news page.

Thanks for the heads up - here ya go
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/firs...uzerne-county/

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Calling that history is bullshit, we already have several regional police departments around here.

Then hop on the trusty old Electromatic and type out a complete and unabridged history of Regional Police Departments in the Commonweath, strongly worded with twenty-seven illustrative 8 x 10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.

Send it to all the editors. It is your moral imperative.

[Walleye Hunter]

Then hop on the trusty old Electromatic and type out a complete and unabridged history of Regional Police Departments in the Commonweath, strongly worded with twenty-seven illustrative 8 x 10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.

Send it to all the editors. It is your moral imperative.

No, no, no, no and ummm....NO! Now, if I saw them post that on twatter, I would wise them up like I do with WFMZ69.

[Steve in PA]

I*m surprised it got off the ground. Bears close watching as this will eventually be the norm with all the other smaller departments in the area.

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I*m surprised it got off the ground. Bears close watching as this will eventually be the norm with all the other smaller departments in the area.

Sounds as if you have misgivings. Elaborate?

[Steve in PA]

Sounds as if you have misgivings. Elaborate?

Officers are for regionalization**it*s the powers that run the smaller towns that are against it.

FYI, I*ve been working in a smaller department for over 24 years. There was talks about 15 years ago to form a regional department amongst several other boroughs. It never got beyond talks and some studies. Most if not all of these boroughs have a hard time maintaining their individual police departments. With the shortage of officers currently sweeping the nation, it*s only going to get harder and harder.

The powers that be need to decide if they can keep their police*..with many facing having to turn into part-time departments because of the lack of manpower**or sucking it up and joining forces with neighboring departments.