The time and effort of our patrollers have enabled us to patrol over 60 times January through June this year. Members are asked to patrol two times per year. A few of our patrollers have been able to patrol more than once during these six months and I appreciate their extra patrol time. We have the means to put out up to 7 patrols per week, please feel free to call me if you would like to schedule an additional patrol at any time.

An important and relatively easy part of our patrolling is the parking patrol. According to PennDot, averages of over 28,000 cars travel on the section of Route 1, North and South, through our township on a daily basis.  A parking patrol of only fifteen minutes in one of the businesses on Route 1 exposes our Town watch operation to approximately 292 cars.  With those numbers in mind, and learning that Route 52 has only a slightly smaller traffic average, we have expanded our parking patrols to include the entrances to many of the streets off Route 52. The thought is to increase our visibility along a major road in the southern part of our township.

I am open to suggestions and comments from patrollers. This year on the advice of a patroller we have added a smaller “Townwatch on Patrol” magnet to the patrol kits. This serves to alert cars behind us that our slower than normal driving is because we are we are on patrol, providing a valuable service to the community. Thank you for your time