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The Doylestown Township Police Department was authorized by the Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors at their meeting on December 30, 1969.
In July 1971, Julian R. Shafer was appointed as the first full time Chief of Police in a part-time police department.
In October 1974, Dale K. Wetherill was appointed Chief of Police of the first full time Doylestown Township Police Department.
In November 1977, Robert T. Cobb was hired as Chief of Police and he oversaw the development of the Police Department into a well trained experienced police department. A federally funded highway safety grant awarded to the department in March 1978 increased the size of the department to 12 police officers. The significance of this was to allow the minimum staffing of at least two police officers on duty in the Township 24 hours a day.
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