The purposes and objectives of the IPCA include
but are not limited to:
A. Improving law enforcement in Chester County, Pennsylvania,
especially in Uwchlan Township and other signatory municipalities
of the IPCA, by granting police officers authority to exercise official
duties in signatory municipalities, thereby alleviating problems of
arrests being determined improper or unlawful because of jurisdictional
or municipal boundary issues;
B. Enhancing the coordination of drug investigations
in Chester County, Pennsylvania; and
C. Providing mutual police aid across jurisdictional
lines to enable police to more-effectively enforce the provisions
of narcotic and controlled substance statutes, thereby preserving
the safety and welfare of persons in Uwchlan Township and in the other
signatory municipalities.
Each signatory municipality shall be responsible
for all expenses incurred by reason of actions taken by its police
pursuant to the IPCA, no other financing being necessary or required
to effectuate its purpose.
No additional organizational structure is necessary
to implement the provisions of the IPCA, nor will any property, real
or personal, be acquired, managed or disposed of in order to effectuate
the purposes contained in the IPCA.
The purpose and objectives of the MDTFA include
but are not limited to county-wide coordination of police activities
in order to enhance the combating of illegal narcotic and controlled
substance trafficking and expediting and enhancing intergovernmental
cooperative activities with signatories to the MDTFA to enhance interdiction
of illegal drug and controlled substance activities.
The MDTFA shall be financed by funds supplied
by the OAG.
Any organizational structure required to implement
the provisions of the MDTFA shall be established through such directives,
procedures, and guidance as may be issued by the OAG, the Chester
County District Attorney, the Uwchlan Township Police Department,
and other police departments whose municipalities are signatory to
the MDTFA.
The acquisition, management or disposal of any
and all property, whether real or personal, acquired or to be acquired
pursuant to the provisions of the MDTFA shall be in accordance with
the terms of the MDTFA and such directives and procedures issued by
the OAG.
Uwchlan Township shall remain responsible and
maintain responsibility for the management, control and direction
of its police officers, subject to such assistance (financial or otherwise)
supplied by the OAG.
After adoption by Uwchlan Township, this article
shall become effective when both:
A. Uwchlan Township and at least one other municipality
have signed the IPCA; and
B. Uwchlan Township and the OAG, the Chester County District
Attorney and at least one other municipality have signed the MDTFA.