Northwest Regional Police Department

ABOUT US

On October 1, 2003 West Donegal Township and Mount Joy Township regionalized forming the Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police.  The Northwest Regional Police department is located in the Northwest area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  The combined area of the townships is approx 48 square miles, which includes significant business districts and industrial districts serving the middle to upper middle class residential areas with over 20,000 residents.   NWLCRPD is currently composed of 16 Full-time Police officers which includes our Chief, Lieutenant, and 2 Detectives.  NWLCRPD also has 5 Part-time officers. 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 in hand with District Judge Duncan’s office.

OUR MISSION

The Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police Department is dedicated  to serving the people of Mount Joy Township and West Donegal Townships,  and our goal is to provide safety and improved quality of life  within our communities through excellence in policing.