weymouth police - Timeline

a constable was chosen for the town of weymouth

Constables are charged with collecting taxes

The first patrolmen ever hired for the town to serve weymouth landing

Two other patrolmen are named to patrol weymouth. Only worked summer days

towns people believed cost was too high and called a town meeting to disband police

Crime and lawlessness increases and becomes uncontrable

one of the earliest police officers Thomas Fitzgerald became the first cheif of the police department

a town meeting was called and made the police department a civil service which protected it

patrick butler was named chief of weymouth police

Patrick Butler killed by an automobile

In 1916 Arthur Pratt supervised the police department

Arthur Pratt retires and Chief Edward Butler takes control

A motorcycle officer is assigned to enforce traffic rules

the first traffic officer is assigned at Washington square

Joseph O'Kane became the fifth chief of the department

first police station is made

sergeant Chesna is shot and killed responding to reports of an erratic driver

Weymouth population reaches 1,803

volunteer fire company is erected with over 50 men volunteering

second war for independence starts

world war I begins

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