OFFICE OF THE POLICE CHIEF

Housing Authority Liaison Unit

About the Housing Authority Liaison Unit

The Harrisburg Bureau of Police has participated with the Harrisburg Housing Authority in maintaining a Housing Authority Liaison Unit since 1991. The Unit currently has four full time patrol officers and is supervised by a corporal. This Unit performs the following assignments:

  1. Responding to calls, both emergency and non-emergency, involving the public housing community and residents.
  2. Engaging in proactive policing strategies, developing and maintaining rapport with the public housing residents, thus fostering an atmosphere of cooperation, compassion, coordination and peace and order in the community.
  3. Encourage residents to report any and all suspicious or criminal activities and suspected or observed abuse or neglect of people or property.
  4. Working with managers and resident councils to develop crime prevention programs, resident programs and youth oriented programs.

The day shift officers respond to requests and needs of the housing managers and work closely with the housing authority staff. They have abandoned and illegal vehicles towed from housing authority property. They develop community-based projects and handle calls for service within the community. Officers working the evening shift make many drug and other crime arrests. They aggressively patrol the housing community and respond to calls for service.

A Community Policing Sub-Station is located at 19J Hall Manor. The sub-station is used as a base of operations. Officers are able to write reports and access reference material from this location by using computers located there.

The Housing Authority Liaison Unit is responsible for policing the following federally subsidized housing units:

Contact the Housing Authority Liaison Unit

The Housing Authority Liaison Unit may be contacted as follows:

Phone

717.255.3131

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