Travel Place New Castle County, Delaware

County public safety: Access to 911 emergency services is oprovided by New Castle County through their emergency communications center for all fire, rescue, EMS services throughout the county and the majority of police services though Netwark Wilmington and the University of Delaware maintain their own police emergency call centers. New Castle County has its own nationally accredited police department. The New Castle County Police Department is the second largest police organization in the state of Delaware. New Castle County maintains a county wide police force is supported by local municipality police aqencies in Middletown Netwark Delaware City Wilmigton Newport Elsmere the city of New Castle the University of Delaware as well as the Delaware State Police. New Castle County also operates a nationally accredited county run paramedic service through its . NCC* EMS is the ALS (Advanced Life Support) componebt of a two tiered paramedic intercept system.

County paramedics are located in eight full time stations during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to &:00 p.m. with a capability of calling in additional personnel during major emergencies or planned events. Ambulance service is provided primarily by volunteer fire companies with the use of paid employees that are trained in fire supression and EMS. Fire, Rescue protection is provided by twenty one volunteer fire departments throughout the county as well as the state's only paid municipal fire department in the city of Wilmington.

The Paul J. Sweeney Public Safety Building located in Minquadale off of US 13 houses the new Castle County Police and Emergency Medical Services Division Headquarters and the emergency communications center supporting 911 services. The present building opened in 2007 with a construction cost of US $50,000,000. The Headquarters occupied a former elementary school building on the same site prior to erection of the current building.

New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2010 census the population was 538,479, making it the most populous county in Delaware with just under 60% of the state's population of 89,936 in the same census. The county seat is Wilmington.