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{{Infobox Police Department
| name            = Boston Police Department
| logo            = [[Image:Boston Police patch.jpg|250px]]
| motto           = 
| established     = 1631—1635
| jurisdiction    = Municipal
| sworn           = 2,015
| non-sworn       = 808
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In 1838 the Day Police was organized, having no connection with the Night Watch. The Day Police operated under the city marshal and had six appointed officers. In 1853, the Harbor Police was created in response to the increase in robberies of occupied vessels in the waters of [[Boston Harbor]]. They were furnished with rowboats and armed with [[Colt revolver
|Colt revolvers]]s. This was the first unit furnished with firearms. 

The Boston Police Department was formally founded in May of 1854, at which point the Boston Watch and Day Police were disbanded, and the Boston Police department came into being. The old hook and bill, which had been in use for one hundred and fifty-four years, was replaced by a fourteen-inch club.

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The current Boston Police Commissioner is Edward Davis, who was Chief of Police in [[Lowell]], MA prior to this appointment. His appointment to the Boston Police Department brought in a renewed era of policing in the city of Boston.

== Community Policing ==
In the 1990
's the Police Department resurrected an old idea, the Walk & Talk strategy. Police Officers assigned to patrol cars are required to walk a particular area for up to 45 minutes or longer per their tour of duty. The establishment of other initiatives like "Same Cop Same Neighborhood" and "Safe Street Beat Teams" have contributed widely to the continued sucess of community policing. These types of direct patrol are used even more widely today under the leadership of Police Commissioner D(contracted; show full)
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==See also==
*[[List of law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts]]

==References==
*[[Francis Russell]]. [http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1744 ''A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike''] (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975).

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==External links==
*[http://www.ci.boston.ma.us/police/default.asp Boston Police Department official web site]
*[http://www.bpdnews.com Boston Police Department blog, BPDNews.com]
*[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/13/police_union_to_fight_merger/ Boston Globe Article on the Merger]

[[Category:Government of Boston, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:United States mMunicipal police departments of the United States]]

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