Events
a constable was chosen for the town of weymouthConstables are charged with collecting taxesThe first patrolmen ever hired for the town to serve weymouth landingTwo other patrolmen are named to patrol weymouth. Only worked summer daystowns people believed cost was too high and called a town meeting to disband policeCrime and lawlessness increases and becomes uncontrableone of the earliest police officers Thomas Fitzgerald became the first cheif of the police departmenta town meeting was called and made the police department a civil service which protected itpatrick butler was named chief of weymouth policePatrick Butler killed by an automobileIn 1916 Arthur Pratt supervised the police departmentArthur Pratt retires and Chief Edward Butler takes controlA motorcycle officer is assigned to enforce traffic rulesthe first traffic officer is assigned at Washington squareJoseph O'Kane became the fifth chief of the departmentfirst police station is madesergeant Chesna is shot and killed responding to reports of an erratic driverWeymouth population reaches 1,803volunteer fire company is erected with over 50 men volunteeringsecond war for independence startsworld war I beginsblizzard of 78 hits
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