The Chaplain Services Unit consists of four police department chaplains available for victim / witness assistance and referral, notification of family members and counseling services to members of the department when needed. Citizen volunteers have stepped up to the plate to help provide some of these essential services. The Ephrata Police Department addresses these issues with another creative program – Volunteer services. Providing the necessary staffing for all the services a police department provides is a challenge in these budget conscious times. Some of the grant funded programs include the TASER program RADKids program ENRADD Speed Timing Device, BuckleUp PA enforcement program, Electronic Evidence Tracking software, and a TACSITE thermal imaging device. Between 20 the department received more than $57,000 in grant funds. In order to keep the cost of public safety services manageable, the EPD has aggressively pursued grant programs to fund many of the programs we provide. Maintained and driven by volunteer drivers in the Special Services Unit, the vehicle is made available to communities throughout the central Pennsylvania region. Building a coalition of a local bank, vehicle restoration businesses, and a small state grant, the Ephrata Police Department obtained this former bank mobile ATM truck, repainted and reconfigured it with the help of local businesses and placed into service as a state of the art command / crime scene vehicle. In times of shrinking budgets and concern about taxes police departments must look to innovative approaches to provide excellence in service – the Special Services Vehicle shown to the right is just one of those programs.
Providing the necessary equipment to outfit today’s modern police department is not always as easy as budgeting for it.
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