"EVER ON THE WATCH" THE HISTORY OF THE BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT by Ret. Officer W.M.Hackley

BALTIMORE POLICE STATION HOUSES

INTRODUCTION
MEDAL OF HONOR
ROLL CALL
FINAL ROLL CALL
BPD FALLEN HEROES
BALTIMORE POLICE ANGEL
INSPIRATION / PRAYERS
MEMORIAL PLAQUES
OUR WOUNDED
OUR HISTORY
BALTIMORE PARK POLICE
OFFICER W. M. HACKLEY
A FAMILY OF SERVICE
BADGES 1
BADGES 2
BADGES 3
HAT DEVICE
PATCHES
EQUIPMENT
PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT 1888
PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT1907
PICTURES OF PERSONNEL 1907
OUR POLICE 1
OUR POLICE 2
OUR POLICE 3
OUR POLICE 4
OUR POLICE 5
OUR POLICE 6
OUR POLICE 7
OUR POLICE 8
ACADEMY CLASS PHOTOS
CENTRAL DISTRICT
SOUTHEAST DISTRICT
EASTERN DISTRICT
NORTHEAST DISTRICT
NORTHERN DISTRICT
NORTHWEST DISTRICT
WESTERN DISTRICT
SOUTHWEST DISTRICT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
NEWS LETTERS
BALTIMORE FIRE 1904
COMMAND STAFF 1937
COMMAND STAFF 2002
NEW HEADQUARTERS BUILDING 1925
DISTRICT STATION HOUSES
ORIGINAL BPD DOCUMENTS
ARSON UNIT
AVIATION UNIT
C.I.D.
CRIME LAB
K-9 UNIT
MARINE UNIT
MOTOR UNIT
MOUNTED UNIT
TACTICAL SECTION
TRAFFIC DIVISION
T.I.S.
VICE SQUAD
BPD TEAMS
BPD VEHICLE HISTORY
DEPARTMENTAL ACCIDENTS
RESTORED BPD VEHICLES
BALTIMORE RIOTS 1861 & 1968
V.I.P.
MUSEUMS
POLICE INFORMATION
RETIREMENTS
BPD PHONE DIRECTORY
POLICE SHOWS / EVENTS
BALTIMORE POLICE VIDEO
BPD WAR STORIES
POLICE HUMOR
"THE POET"
POLICE WEEK
GOOD SITES TO VISIT
CREDITS
CONTACT BILL HACKLEY
FOP
NYPD / NYFD TRIBUTE 9-11-2001
COP'S HOLIDAY SEASON
POLICE ITEMS 4-SALE

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Baltimore police

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Baltimore City Watch house and Mechanical Engine house, located at North Street. and Belvedere Street

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Baltimore Central Police Station 1860's located, Southeast corner of Holiday Street and Saratoga Street.(above & below)

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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.

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The Canton Police Station 1917

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Canton Police Station located at Baylis & Toone St. 1940's

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Western Police Station,
Baltimore Street and Green Street

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Baltimore City Map depicting the location of the Southern Police Station in the 1860-1880's

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Actual check paying for the building of the Southern Station House
July 18, 1873
Cost of $7,775.65

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Baltimore Police Headquarters 1925

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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.”

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Artist conception of the New Central District 1974

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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

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ORIGINAL PROGRAM FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW Head Quarters Building

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CENTRAL POLICE STATION

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NORTHEAST POLICE STATION

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NORTHWEST POLICE STATION

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SOUTHWEST STATION
 
LATER BECAME THE TACTICAL & K-9 UNIT

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PINE STREET STATION
 
WOMEN & JUVENILE DETENTION
 
 

The following 4 prints by Joseph Sheppard were done as murals in the lobby of the new Baltimore Police Headquarters in the 1970’s

They depicted life in early Baltimore History

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Lexington Market in the early 1800’s

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Baltimore’s dock in the 1800‘s, the early Inner Harbor

Baltimore was a major sea port for world trade

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THE BALTIMORE  FIRE OF 1904
This fire destroyed a better part of the downtown business district
This shows the area around Calvert and Fayette near the Battle Monument

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FORT McHENRY

The fierce battle that inspired the Nation’s National Anthem

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EASTERN POLICE STATION

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NORTHERN POLICE STATION

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WESTERN POLICE STATION

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SOUTHERN STATION

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Booking area inside Pine Street Station

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Sculpture at the new SOUTHERN DISTRICT

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Dedication of the new Southern District1

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