HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf's 2017-18 budget proposal includes a plan to charge communities without their own police force $25 per resident for state police protection.
According to Channel 11's news exchange partners at TribLIVE, Westmoreland County is home to 136,330 people in 26 municipalities served strictly by state police, the most of any county in Pennsylvania. Hempfield Township is the largest municipality in the state without local police, with a population of 42,300.