By Amy Batista, Special Writer
FLORENCE — The Police Department has redesigned and launched a more user-friendly website for its residents over the past several months and is using social media to keep residents informed.
”We are proud to announce the launch of our new department website,” said Capt. Brian Boldizar in an email. “The website is an improvement from our old site. We added a new URL to make it easier for everyone to access.”
He said police started developing it in the summer when Acting Chief John Bunce and he met to discuss how they would like the site to look and what improvements they could make to give the residents a look at their department and what they have to offer.
”The new site also includes a records and forms section, which allows residents to access the more common forms that we are using to include firearms applications, discovery report forms and vacation property checks, to name a few,” he said.
He said each officer was assigned a page or two to design.
”Assignments were made based on the officer’s specialty assignments within the department,” he said. “For example, Officer Jason Shafer, who is one of our Adopt-A-Cop officers, was assigned to develop the Adopt-A-Cop page.”
City Connections is the web designer for the department as well as the township.
”Once all of the pages were developed, we sent them to City Connections,” he said. “They then turned our design into a website.”
A posting on its Facebook page on Dec. 18 read “The Florence Township Police Department website is now live. Please visit http://www.florencetwppd.org/.”
Police also added Facebook, Twitter and Nixle accounts to help keep residents informed, he added.
”We will be posting press releases, road closures, etc., on our social media pages,” he said.
