On behalf of the Membership Committee,
We welcome you to the Atlantic City Police Athletic League. We hope that you will take advantage of the League’s many programs including its workshops, special interest sections, and roundtables. These programs provide you with opportunities for professional growth and for contact with colleagues throughout the community.
The Atlantic City Police Athletic League will also serve to connect you with what’s going on in the boxing world. Among the most important benefits of the League will be the contacts you develop with fellow boxers, coaches, police officers and related professionals. These relationships can be a ready source of friendships and advice in dealing with issues common throughout the area. Atlantic City Police Athletic League values your membership and encourages your participation.
This is your organization!
“It’s better to build boys and girls, than mend men and women.”
Who We Are…
The Atlantic City Police Athletic League is a community based agency that is affiliated with the Atlantic City Police Department, but run independently as a 501c3 non-profit organization. The agency is administered by active Atlantic City Police Officers, and a highly qualified staff, assisted by local community leaders and private citizens The Atlantic City Police Athletic League has provided education, recreation, and community service programs for the residents of Atlantic City and surrounding communities for over thirty years. Assisting others in need has always been a Atlantic City Athletic League priority, as well as our involvement with diverse Populations.
The Atlantic City Police Athletic League maintains a cooperative relationship with other Atlantic City organizations and will often work Hand-in-Hand with those Organizations.
"A very necessary place that provides positive things and options for youths!"
-Local Resident
"Great environment for the children for growth and development."
-Local Resident
"A good and safe place to be."
-Local Resident
"AC PAL is a place of refuge for not only the children but the adults as well, it serves the community."
-PAL Parent
"A great place for young people to grow and develop into their full potential and realize their best selves! I recommend the youth boxing program filled with fun, physical fitness, educational life skills, health and wellness!"
-PAL Parent
Programs and Activities
AC PAL serves the youth of Atlantic City with recreational, educational, cultural, and social programs. Boys and girls ages 3 to 21 build for the future with a place to learn, grow, and dream.
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In The News
Special thanks to our former executive director
Lieutenant Monica Coursey
We commend Lieutenant Coursey for the success of the $65,000 Boxing Grant awarded to ACPAL by Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, and State Athletic Control Board (SACB) Commissioner Larry Hazzard Sr. in 2019. The boxing program superceded its goals in spite of the….
AC PAL offers something
for people of all ages.
You know the Police Athletic League as a place where young people become young athletes. But if that’s all you know about PAL, you’re missing a lot. About 100 adults and 250 seniors also make use of the building during the year, along with about….
Coffee bring cops and
Atlantic City residents together
Atlantic City police Chaplain Eric McCoy passes out coffee Tuesday as part of the Atlantic City PAL’s Coffee with a Cop event, which gave community members a chance to ask questions and learn more about the department’s work in the city’s neighborhoods.
PAL teams up with A.C. Church
on community garden
Nestled between the Police Athletic League and an alley on New York Avenue is a community garden brimming with vegetables. Tomatoes, cucumbers, chard, peppers and onions are just some of the fresh produce growing in the urban plot. The garden is maintained by…….