Police/Public Safety


The Gettysburg Police Department has a time honored tradition of protecting and serving our community of over 7,600 residents and over 2 million visitors a year from around the world. Our dedicated team of full time officers, part-time officers, auxiliary officers and administrative officer and volunteers are second to none. While our department is small, our experience is wide spread with officers who received specialized training in a wide range of subjects including but not limited to SWAT, CSI, Intelligence, De-escalation tactics, Sexual Assault Investigations and Domestic Violence.  Our Department has Officers who are multilingual, to those who lived in Europe, Asia and the Middle East resulting in understanding the views and cultures of those countries.  Some of our Officer's are military veteran's, firemen and EMT's allowing us to provide critical assistance to those we serve in time of need.

If you need to talk to or see an officer dial 911 for emergencies or 717-334-8101 for non-emergencies.  For administrative calls dial 717-334-1168 from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday. 

Mission Statement

The mission of the Gettysburg Police Department is to provide all residents, businesses and visitors to the Borough of Gettysburg with the outstanding, responsive, professional public safety service they deserve.  All members of your police department will strive to be approachable and respectful at all times; will consistently and compassionately enforce the laws of this commonwealth and nation; will provide requested and needed service to the public always driven by one of our primary motivator of being solution oriented.  We will always endeavor to give rise to the principle; “THE POLICE ARE THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC ARE THE POLICE”.


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Staff Contacts

Name Title Phone
Robert W. Glenny Jr. Chief of Police (717) 334-1168 Ext 900
Courtney D. Riley Records & Support Services Coordinator (717) 334-1160 ext. 951
Larry E. Weikert Sergeant - Squad B (717) 334-1160 ext. 928
Harald W. Pruy Sergeant - Squad A (717) 334-1160 ext. 906

Squad B

NameTitlePhone #

Sergeant - Squad B

(717) 334-1160 ext. 906

Squad A

NameTitlePhone #

Sergeant - Squad A

(717) 334-1160 ext. 928

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