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Read about the new slogan that Sewickley Valley Chamber of Commerce has selected for Village merchants. Page 11.
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Autograph cards for Steelers football training camp are inside this issue of the Sewickley Herald.
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Area swim teams competed at the Western Pennsylvania Country Club Swimming Association Championships on Tuesday.
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RAYLEIM SHANNON gets caught up in a jump rope during an activities period at Old Economy'Village’s day camp. Participants experienced what it was like to be a child in the 19th century, including games. For more about the event and photos, turn to Page 13.	photo	by	Kristina Kregiel
REGION
Aleppo, Glenfield consider area-wide police force
By Adnm Brnndolph
Staff writer
Six area communities are turning to the state to look into the possible formation of a new police force.
The Governor’s Center for Local Government Services will do a study to determine how the departments can create a regional police force, after Ben Avon and Glenfield leaders send letters of intent to the state organization,
Leaders from Aleppo, Ben Avon Heights, Neville and Kilbuck already submitted the necessary paperwork. The six communities cover about eight square miles,
A regional police study committee — including at least one member from each of the six communities — will help determine how to create one department, said Ron Stem, local government policy specialist for the Governor’s Center,
Next, a police chief from an area polices department will investigate the region's law enforcement needs, talking to the district magistrate, riding along in patrol cars and gathering other pertinent information,
The chief will submit a proposal and make a presentation to each municipality to outline each community’s policing needs.
The process could take up to six months.
"The study is really a building block, a foundation," Stern said.
Municipalities will be under no obligation to merge police departments after the Study is complete. The study is provided at no cost to the communities
Stern said he could not guarantee a regional police department will save the municipalities money immediately, but he cited a 24 percent savings over 23 years for Northern York Regional Police Department, located in central Pennsylvania,
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