LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAW ENFORCEMENT
In a time of deep social division, we not only need for police to have good relations with the public, we also need for the best public safety efforts to be coordinated. Our aim is to invest in this community to support law enforcement as they interrupt violence.
In a time of deep social division, we not only need for police to have good relations with the public, we also need for the best public safety efforts to be coordinated. Our aim is to invest in this community to support law enforcement as they interrupt violence.
Kindness Citations
We participate in World Kindness Week. Once a year, we give officers the opportunity to cite community members with Kindness Citations. This has been effective to lift community morale and build connections between law enforcment and cititzens.
Kindness Week Worldwide affords a unique opportunity to reveal the true heart and character of our communities through a unifying demonstration of the inherent goodness possessed by all! As humanity’s greatest asset, Kindness is a choice that should be universally encouraged, recognized, rewarded, and celebrated!
During Kindness Week Worldwide, the mobilization of school systems, service organizations, colleges, businesses, faith-based communities, ecosystems, and others is encouraged to express, display, and promote Kindness through volunteerism, charity, and other means limited only by the bounds of imagination and creativity!
Stories of kindness are invited to be reported and shared on www.kindnessworldwide.org and its social pages via designated hashtags: #KindnessWorldwide, #KindnessWeekOfficial, #ExtraMileForKindness, #KindnessWeekWorldwide, and #KindnessCommunityCollab.
Kindness Citations
We participate in World Kindness Week. Once a year, we give officers the opportunity to cite community members with Kindness Citations. This has been effective to lift community morale and build connections between law enforcment and cititzens.
Kindness Week Worldwide affords a unique opportunity to reveal the true heart and character of our communities through a unifying demonstration of the inherent goodness possessed by all! As humanity’s greatest asset, Kindness is a choice that should be universally encouraged, recognized, rewarded, and celebrated!
During Kindness Week Worldwide, the mobilization of school systems, service organizations, colleges, businesses, faith-based communities, ecosystems, and others is encouraged to express, display, and promote Kindness through volunteerism, charity, and other means limited only by the bounds of imagination and creativity!
Stories of kindness are invited to be reported and shared on www.kindnessworldwide.org and its social pages via designated hashtags: #KindnessWorldwide, #KindnessWeekOfficial, #ExtraMileForKindness, #KindnessWeekWorldwide, and #KindnessCommunityCollab.
De-escalation Training
The York County Safety Collab funds and facilitates twice yearly de-escalation training for law enforcement agencies in York County. The motto of the York County Safety Collab is “safer together.” For us, that means everyone. We want all citizens of York County to feel safer. We want all of our police officers to feel safer. We want visitors to our county to feel safer. This training is one of the best tools we can offer our law enforcement to ensure that goal is realized.
The York County Safety Collab funds and facilitates twice yearly de-escalation training for law enforcement agencies in York County. The motto of the York County Safety Collab is “safer together.” For us, that means everyone. We want all citizens of York County to feel safer. We want all of our police officers to feel safer. We want visitors to our county to feel safer. This training is one of the best tools we can offer our law enforcement to ensure that goal is realized.
WE REDUCED USE OF FORCE BY 20%
resulting in less than three instances in use of force for every 1,000 police interactions.
WE REDUCED USE OF FORCE BY 20%
resulting in less than three instances in use of force for every 1,000 police interactions.
Officer Wellness
York County is home to more than 600 police officers and sheriff’s deputies — each one dedicated to keeping our communities safe. The heartbreaking loss of four officers in 2025 reminds us of the risks they take every day to protect the rest of us.
Your gift makes a difference. It provides mental health, wellness, and recovery resources for York County’s officers and their families across the entire county. Together, we can help keep our heroes healthy.
Our officers take care of us — now it’s our turn to take care of them.
Officer Wellness
York County is home to more than 600 police officers and sheriff’s deputies — each one dedicated to keeping our communities safe. The heartbreaking loss of four officers in 2025 reminds us of the risks they take every day to protect the rest of us.
Your gift makes a difference. It provides mental health, wellness, and recovery resources for York County’s officers and their families across the entire county. Together, we can help keep our heroes healthy.
Our officers take care of us — now it’s our turn to take care of them.
Safer Together Chats
Safer Together Chats
Episode 5 “You don’t have to break code to change”: York County Prison & the birth of a credible messenger
When Luis Berrios went to prison, he lost it all. His reputation, family, his home, clothes, and even his name. The choices he made lead to his incarceration, and with that meant privileges were stripped away. Luis now serves the role as a credible messenger for the Group Violence Initiative (GVI). A credible messenger is a person with lived experience who positive influence others to change their mindset and behaviors.
Episode 2 – Black and Hispanic experiences: How change happens in York County
The Rev. Dr. Ramona Kinard used to be afraid of driving through Dover, Pennsylvania at night. It wasn’t the dark that generated that fear – it was the police. As a Black woman, she heard rumors of threatening interactions resulting in arrests or even worse. But now she’s on a first name basis with Chief David Lash of Northern York County Regional Police and knows that he and his department to work toward justice. In fact, she’s attended implicit bias training alongside them to see first-hand the efforts they’re taking to protect everyone equally.
Episode 5 “You don’t have to break code to change”: York County Prison & the birth of a credible messenger
When Luis Berrios went to prison, he lost it all. His reputation, family, his home, clothes, and even his name. The choices he made lead to his incarceration, and with that meant privileges were stripped away. Luis now serves the role as a credible messenger for the Group Violence Initiative (GVI). A credible messenger is a person with lived experience who positive influence others to change their mindset and behaviors.
Episode 2 – Black and Hispanic experiences: How change happens in York County
The Rev. Dr. Ramona Kinard used to be afraid of driving through Dover, Pennsylvania at night. It wasn’t the dark that generated that fear – it was the police. As a Black woman, she heard rumors of threatening interactions resulting in arrests or even worse. But now she’s on a first name basis with Chief David Lash of Northern York County Regional Police and knows that he and his department to work toward justice. In fact, she’s attended implicit bias training alongside them to see first-hand the efforts they’re taking to protect everyone equally.
Shepherd's Funds
The Shepherd’s Fund is a new initiative designed to equip York County’s first responders with resources to help neighbors in crisis. This Fund will ensure officers are supported in their compassion and that vulnerable residents receive immediate, dignified assistance.
Shepherd's Funds
The Shepherd’s Fund is a new initiative designed to equip York County’s first responders with resources to help neighbors in crisis. This Fund will ensure officers are supported in their compassion and that vulnerable residents receive immediate, dignified assistance.
The Shepherd’s fund will help with immediate needs like:
- Gas & Transportation
- Food
- Temporary Lodging
- Clothing
The Shepherd’s fund will help with immediate needs like:
- Gas & Transportation
- Food
- Temporary Lodging
- Clothing
York City Police Department
Shepherd’s Fund
Southern Regional Police Department
Shepherd’s Fund
York City Police Department
Shepherd’s Fund
Southern Regional Police Department
Shepherd’s Fund