
This is accomplished by assigning the sector officer to the back-up role rather than bringing another district officer out of his district to back a fellow district officer. This plan allows the officer assigned to a district to maximize their time in the assigned district. The plan utilizes multiple districts along with overlapping sectors. The patrol division is on duty twenty four hours a day, seven days a week and is staffed by 2 Lieutenants, 8 Sergeants, 36 police officers and 4 police K9s.Ī manpower distribution plan is used by the Department. While every member of the department is sworn to protect life and property, prevent crime, and arrest violators of the law, it is the members of the patrol division that help to accomplish these goals through routine patrol of geographical areas, responding to emergency and non emergency calls for service, investigating traffic collisions, and the proper enforcement of all laws and ordinances in accordance with the rights and liberties guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as handling other requests for police services. It is tasked with carrying out the basic functions of the police department. Patrol Division is the backbone of the Haverford Township Police Department.
