The department consists of 1 Chief, 8 full-time officers and 15 part-time officers. Dickson City's fleet consists of 3 Ford Explorers, 5 Chevrolet Tahoes.

The borough of Dickson City is unique in that it offers not only residential challenges but commercial challenges as well. The borough takes up 4.8 square miles of Lackawanna County and hosts a population of approximately 6,000 people; however the number of people within the borough greatly increases due to the amount of retail traffic on a daily basis.