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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 202 ...
Police Department was established in 1820. It employs about 524 sworn officers and another 200 support staff. It is headed by Chief of Police Ernest N. Finley.
History
Civil rights era
Organization
The department is divided into a number of divisions, which in turn have a number of bureaus.
The divisions are:
*Administrative
*Criminal Investigative
*Municipal Jail
*Patrol
*Special Operations
*Traffic
*Training and Recruiting
Fallen Officers
Since its establishment in 1820, 25 officers of the Montgomery Police Department have been killed in the line of duty.
There has been 3 Montgomery Police Department Officers die while off-duty
See also
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Freedom Riders in Montgomery
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Shooting of Greg Gunn
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama. Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white ...
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Killing of Bernard Whitehurst
Bernard Whitehurst, Jr. was shot in the back and killed on December 2, 1975 by Donald Foster, a Montgomery, Alabama police officer who said he thought Whitehurst was the suspect in the robbery of a neighborhood grocery store. In a subsequent cover ...
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List of law enforcement agencies in Alabama
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Alabama.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 417 law enforcement agencies employing 11,631 sworn ...
References
External links
Montgomery, Alabama Police Department
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Municipal police departments of Alabama
1820 establishments in Alabama