This is an official page of the Mount Joy Borough Police Department (the “Department”). The purpose of this site is to present matters that the Department believes to be in the public interest and to allow citizens to submit comments that relate to the Department’s announcements. We encourage you to submit comments, but please note that this is not intended as an open public forum. This page is monitored and managed daily by representatives of the Department. This site is not intended to be a means for persons to report crimes or emergencies. In cases of emergencies or the need for immediate police assistance, please dial 9-1-1. If you wish to report a crime, but it is not an emergency situation, you may dial (717) 664-1180. Comments posted by persons other than the authorized representative(s) of the Department do not reflect an endorsement or opinion of the Department or the Borough of Mount Joy or any of their employees or officials. The Department welcomes a person's right to express his/her opinion in a respectful manner and encourages posters to keep comments related to content on this page. Any posting on this page constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions which should be read in full prior to any posting:
• Anybody posting on this page is subject to the Community Standards and other pertinent terms and conditions of use established by Facebook. Additionally, such users are subject to Facebook’s policies regarding collection and retention of information from users of their site.
• If you post information related to a crime on this page, you may be placing yourself in the position of becoming a witness in court proceedings.
• Users shall not post on this page any material that contains racial or ethnic slurs, material that disparages persons due to their gender, sexual orientation or identity, or material that is harassing, discriminatory, or sexually explicit.
• Users shall not post on this page any material that is illegal, obscene, profane, abusive, defamatory, threatening, infringes copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights, or is otherwise offensive, graphically or in tone.
• Users shall not post comments that support or oppose political candidates, political organizations or ballot propositions.
• Comments posted to announcements or statements issued by the Department must relate in some way to such announcement or statement. The Department reserves the right to hide or delete comments that are not pertinent to the information posted by the Department.
• Users must refrain from personal attacks against other commenters.
• Users may not post links to sites which are inappropriate, unrelated to the information posted by the Department or for the purposes of advertising a service or other form of solicitation.
• All postings by visitors to the site may be retained by the Department, in its discretion and as required by applicable law or policy.
• All postings may be subject to the Pennsylvania Right to Know Act and other public records and disclosure laws, as well as discovery in litigation. Postings or comments may also constitute evidence in criminal proceedings.
• Users of this page have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality with respect to any content they post, and the Department has no responsibility for maintaining any such privacy or confidentiality. The Department reserves the right to hide or delete posts or comments that do not comply with the above terms and conditions in its discretion; furthermore, the Department reserves the right to flag the accounts of users who post such materials and to ban users who repeatedly post such materials from further participation on the page.
