Municipal Police Departments of Minnesota - Minneapolis Police Department, Saint Paul Police Department (Paperback)

Chapters: Minneapolis Police Department, Saint Paul Police Department. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is the police department for the city of Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Centrally headquartered at City Hall in Downtown Minneapolis since 1867, it is the first and oldest police department in the state. MPD's history is linked closely to twin city Saint Paul with the state's second oldest police force. A short-lived Board of Police Commissioners existed from 1887 to 1890. The modern department is organized into three bureaus all reporting to Chief of Police Tim Dolan and Assistant Chief of Police Sharon Lubinski. The city is served through five precincts with 800 sworn officers and 300 civilian employees from the Minneapolis Police Reserve auxiliary unit. At the city's population peak, MPD served over 521,000 people, and today serves over 377,000 people as of the last Census estimate. Other independent protection organizations serve the city, identified as partner law enforcement agencies, these are the University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD), Minneapolis Park Police, Metro Transit Police, and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. The Metropolitan Airports Commission Police serves the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in unincorporated Hennepin County. In the 1800s, the City of St. Anthony and Town of Minneapolis were first adequately served by an appointed city marshal based out of St. Anthony who was assisted by constables. Vested with the power of arrest, they rarely used it. Criminals sentenced would be sent to Ramsey County Jail or the Stillwater Penitentiary until the Hennepin County Courthouse and Jail was built in 1857. When the two cities merged and incorporat...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1308746