Chief Jason D. Umberger is pleased to announce the formation of the first Police-Community Advisory Council in the history of Dauphin County. The Council is comprised of eleven individuals from the greater Harrisburg Metropolitan area who represent the diverse communities of our region.  The Council was formed in late February and has met four times since its first meeting on March 30, 2015. The Council is committed to working with law enforcement to strengthen Police Community relations. The Council’s stated purposes and responsibilities are listed below.

The purpose of the Police-Community Advisory Council is threefold:

1) To improve community relations between police and the community
2) To provide community members, whose concerns and ideas normally are not heard by police, with a way to be heard.
3) To help police officials know residents’ perspectives on (new or long-standing) problems and solutions in order to avoid or resolve community tension.

Advisory Council Responsibilities are:

1) Inform the Police representatives of community problems;
2) Propose solutions to community problems that the Police may not have considered. 
3) Provide educational outreach to the community on police-community relations
4) Foster a spirit of cooperation between Police and the Community

The Council is not a political action group but rather is a group of individual citizens who were carefully selected from the community. They are eager to serve their fellow citizens and the police to strengthen police community relations. 

Police-Community Advisory Council Members:

Mr. Michael Leonzo
Mr. Daniel Davis
Mr. Tika Dhungana
Mr. Troy Dunston
Mrs. Gloria Martin Roberts
Mrs. Phyllis Bennett
Mr. Jeffrey Kline
Mr. Bill Russell
Mr. Kelly Summerford
Mr. Mario Farano
Mr. David Smith
Chief Jason D. Umberger

Several members of the Council will be in attendance to greet the public at the annual Swatara Township Police Department’s National Night Out event on August 4, 2015 between 6:00 pm – 9:00 at Vanatta Park in the 4800 Block of Derry Street behind the 7-11 Store.