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Baltimore City Watch house and Mechanical Engine house, located at North Street. and Belvedere
Street
Baltimore Central Police Station 1860's located, Southeast corner of Holiday Street and
Saratoga Street.(above & below)
Court house and Baltimore Police Headquarters located at Calvert Street & Fayette Street
in the early 1900's prior to building the Headquarters Building at Fayette & Fallsway Sts in 1925.
The Canton Police Station 1917
Canton Police Station located at Baylis & Toone St. 1940's
Western Police Station,
Baltimore Street and Green Street
Baltimore City Map depicting the location of the Southern Police Station
in the 1860-1880's
Actual check paying for the building of the Southern Station House
July 18, 1873
Cost of $7,775.65
Baltimore Police Headquarters 1925
Bishop L. Robinson Sr. Police Administration Building
POLICE HEADQUARTERS RENAMED FOR RETIRED COMMISSIONER ...
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Wednesday signed a bill into law March 2007 renaming the Baltimore Police Department’s
headquarters to the Bishop L. Robinson Sr. Police
Administration Building in honor of the former police commissioner.
Police Commissioner
Leonard Hamm said he spearheaded the movement to rename the headquarters after the man who showed him the ropes.
“He
was my mentor,” Hamm told The Examiner. “All of us wanted to be like him.”
Bishop Robinson joined
the police department in 1953 and rose through the ranks to become commander of the Operations Bureau.
In 1984, then
Mayor William Donald Schaefer appointed Robinson to become the first black man to serve as the city’s police commissioner.
He held the job until 1987, when Schaefer, who became governor, appointed him secretary of the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, where he served for 10 years. Robinson also was later appointed to serve as secretary of the Department
of Juvenile Justice.
“Bishop Robinson’s achievements have helped create a world where no door is left
unopened for African-Americans,” Dixon said in a statement. “I would like to personally thank Bishop Robinson
for serving our city for more than 50 years. I pray that more young men and women in this city aspire to serve their fellow
citizens as well as he has.”
Artist conception of the New Central District 1974
LARGE EMBLEM OVER THE FRONT DOOR OF THE ANNEX
USED TO BE OVER THE HQ. BUILDING NEXT DOOR
THE
OLD HEADQUARTERS AND CENTRAL DISTRICT
THE NEW HEADQUARTERS AND ANNEX BUILDING
The Headquarters Building was constructed in 1925 and was located on the corner of Fayette and
Fallsway. It was torn down and replaced in 1972 with a proud 10 story headquarters building, directly across the street.
The site now serves as the Baltimore City Fire Memorial.
BPD MEMORIAL is across the street from the new Annex building on the Shot Tower site.
The new structure will afford, for the first time in many long years adequate areas in which
to work. Housing in totality all of our Bureaus and Divisions, excluding our 9 patrol districts, it provides one of the most
advanced command and control centers known in law enforcement. This includes a modern communications center, a highly sophisticated
laboratory, a heliport and a computerized operational crime analysis center.
The new Headquarters is built upon a foundation of the visionary thinking of the men and women
of this department who through their deeds have demonstrated their personal dedication to providing the citizens of Baltimore
an ever improving level of service.
The annex building was placed in service in 2004
ORIGINAL PROGRAM FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW Head Quarters Building
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