Pocomoke Police Department hosts meeting highlighting community transparency

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. – Community members and law enforcement came together Wednesday in Pocomoke City for a meeting on transparency.

“One of our main goals is to be transparent with our community, open, be more involved with our community and events, and community policing,” said Chief Arthur Hancock, for Pocomoke Police Department.

Pocomoke City Police Department hosting a community meeting to give their community an inside look. “Transparency is important to us in a small community because we’re very small, we’re tight knit, and we want our citizens and our community to know that we’re doing our absolute best to serve our community, protect our community and protect our citizens,” said Chief Hancock.

Just like Chief Arthur Hancock, community members also would like to see that transparency on the forefront. “I’m active in the community, and I do want to know what the police department are doing, how they’re trying to adjust with changing laws and informing the citizens what they’re allowed to inform of,” said resident Michael Dean.

A community member since 1966, Michael Dean says transparency is important more than ever since receiving recent alerts. “Here lately there have been some announcements about suspicious activities in certain neighborhoods. That is, in my opinion, hit or miss. I think they’re making developments in that area,” said Dean.

Though some situations are confidential, the Pocomoke Police Department is making it their duty to provide residents with the most information that they can. “Confidential matters is something that we need our community to know about, what we can talk about, what we can’t talk about and why we can’t talk about certain things,” said Chief Hancock.

Police also discussed their K-9 operations, juvenile matters, and body worn cameras. To help your community, Chief Hancock says its best if you know of anything suspicious to say something.