Crime & Safety

Warminster Police Donating Ballistic Vests To Ukraine

The police department will donate the vests in an effort to aid the people of Ukraine.

"We pray this equipment saves lives and their struggle ends peacefully."
"We pray this equipment saves lives and their struggle ends peacefully." (Renee Schiavone/Patch)

WARMINSTER, PA — The Warminster Township Police Department has announced that they will be donating ballistic vests to Ukraine in an effort to aid the people of that country as they face the current conflict with Russia.

"Warminster police are happy to join the long line of local police departments donating police equipment to help the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom!" the department said in a statement.

This act of charity comes after other local police departments, such as the Falls Township Police Department, began donating goods and protective equipment to the country.

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"It is our hope that this will provide some measure of relief and aid directly from the men and women of the Falls Township Police Department to those who are in danger in Ukraine," Falls Police Chief Nelson Whitney said after their donations began at the beginning of March.

The vests will be sent to the country for people entrenched in the current violence.

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"We pray this equipment saves lives and their struggle ends peacefully."

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