Politics & Government

Regional Police Study Released for Review

Find out the details in the proposal to merge five police departments in the Central Bucks area.

Elected officials in and around Doylestown will try again to reach a consensus on a plan to merge their police forces.

For months, the boroughs of Doylestown and New Britain and the townships of Doylestown, New Britain, and Plumstead have been discussing merging their departments into a Central Bucks Regional Police Department.

This effort comes on the heels of a previous effort which included Warwick Township; that deal fell through when Warwick backed out.

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A study prepared by the Governor’s Center for Local Government Services of the Department of Community and Economic Development is now ready for public review. (Click the attached pdf file.)

Doylestown Borough Council's public safety committee will hold a public meeting to present the Bucks County Regional Police Study on Wednesday, July 11, at 7 p.m. at borough hall.

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The public is encouraged to attend.

"Part of the purpose of the meeting is to go over the presentation, and council will hopefully authorize us to continue to the next stage," Dennis McCauley, the borough council member who heads the public safety committee, said Wednesday.

"We're just trying to put out as much information as possible about it," he added. "The borough has been very interested in pursuing this; it's been in development for more than two years to get to this point. And I personally think it's going to be really beneficial to the communities involved."

A public meeting of all five municipalities will be held July 24 at Lenape Middle School.

Recent incidents demonstrate the need for local police departments to work closely together.

Police departments across Bucks County worked together during the pursuit of , and during the June 17 .

Area police departments also collaborate to solve crimes that know no municipal boundary, such as the .


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