Town of Warwick to study consolidating police with villages

WARWICK – The Town of Warwick will conduct a feasibility study to consolidate the police departments in the villages of Florida and Greenwood Lake into its department. Both villages as well as the Village of Warwick are within the Town of Warwick. The village department merged with the town some years ago. Town Supervisor Jesse Dwyer believes merging the other two villages into the town police can be a benefit from a tax and service standpoint. “We’ve got an enormous infrastructure in the Town of Warwick Department. We’ve got a great detective bureau, sergeants, SROs, a very substantial patrol force. We’ve got great resources that we can use to leverage and support these municipalities,” he said. “If that can help reduce taxes across the town and these villages, I’m confident in our police chief’s ability and our department’s abilities to cover the needs of these local residents.” If the study presents a case for a merger, it will be up to each village as to if it wants to merge with t