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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Pennsylvania.. Pennsylvania says it has more police departments than any other state in the country. [1] According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,117 law enforcement agencies employing 27,413 sworn police officers, about 218 for each 100,000 residents.
The office of the Pennsylvania State Constable is a municipally elected, sworn Law Enforcement Officer [4] throughout the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [5]Pennsylvania State Constables are elected in each borough, township, and city ward in the state—except in Philadelphia (although constables may still exercise authority in the City of Philadelphia) —and serve six-year terms.
Luzerne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 906 square miles (2,350 km 2 ), of which 890 square miles (2,300 km 2 ) is land and 16 square miles (41 km 2 ) is water.
Under Pennsylvania law, a municipality may choose to have the state police act as its local law enforcement, and the municipality does not have to pay any fees to do so. Unlike other states, Pennsylvania does not use county sheriff's offices to patrol areas without local police, and so the PSP covers areas without local police departments.
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Dec. 27—WILKES-BARRE — A Wilkes-Barre woman who conspired with another to propel a package of marijuana by slingshot into the exercise yard at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility was ...
Michael Thomas Conahan [1] is an American convicted felon and former judge. He received a J.D. degree from Temple University and went on to serve from 1994 to 2007 as judge on the Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County.
May 29—WILKES-BARRE — A loaded .38-caliber handgun was smuggled into the Luzerne County Correctional Facility by a prisoner dropped off by Wilkes-Barre City police early Wednesday morning.