DeHart Named 2007 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year

On May 8, 2008, the Police Heritage Museum held the 2007 Law Enforcement Awards ceremony in the former York County Commissioners meeting room at the York County Administrative Center, 28 East Market Street (the former York County Court House) in downtown York. Officer Paul DeHart of the York City Police Department was named the 2007 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.

In 2007, DeHart was among the shift leaders in criminal arrests, with nine felony and twelve misdemeanor arrests. He served 58 warrants, issued 54 traffic citations and 31 non-traffic citations, and answered more than 1,000 calls in 2007.

DeHart's work ethic is second to none. When not answering calls, DeHart can be found looking for criminal activity. Most of his criminal arrests come from self-initiated activity rather than dispatched calls. He has been instrumenta

The Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award was established in 2000 by the Police Heritage Museum, Inc. to promote a better understanding between law enforcement officers and the citizens they serve by demonstrating the role officers play in their communities' history and growth.

By establishing the award, the Police Heritage Museum hopes to meet it's mission by promoting the public trust and support of local law enforcement agencies by showcasing the achievements of local law enforcement officers. In addition, we hope to shed light on the community member that wears a law enforcement uniform.

For more information on this and previous awards, please visit the Law Enforcement Awards Program page.

Virtual Exhibits Added to Web Site

As part of the Museum's ongoing efforts to protect and preserve the history of law enforcement, the staff of the Police Heritage Museum has added two new "virtual exhibits" the the Museum's web site.

The two new pages are the beginning of what we hope to be an expanding area of the web site, providing photographs and information about law enforcement history that may not be easily preserved in the museum building.

Please visit our Virtual Exhibits page to view these newly published pages:

The Lockup page provides history and photographs of local holding facilities that many communities constructed to detain prisoners until released or transferred to a larger county facility. We are actively seeking additional information on these or any other local lockups in York County.

The York City Chiefs page provided a chronological listing of the York City Police agency heads from 1855 to the present. We encourage anyone with photographs of these men to provide them to us to be added to the site.

We also encourage any local law enforcement agency that has historical information on their department that would make a valuable addition to the web site to contact us.