History and Purpose of Police

  • state started registering motor vehicles

  • Gov. Albert C. Ritchie became Governor, one of the first things he did was to form a force of motorcycle officers to patrol roads

  • under the control of the commissioner of Motor Vehicles, Major Enoch Barton Garey., this force was started with 38 officers

  • current badge of the maryland state police was designed by Mr. Edwin Tunis

  • the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing published a report that outlined numerous recommendations to help support law enforcement’s efforts to work cooperatively with the community to build trust and maintain partnerships

  • held a series of town hall meetings to discuss police and race relations in Montgomery County

  • the volunteers and interns recorded more than 32,300 hours of service to the department with a cost benefit of over $780,000

  • the 20th Anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks on our Nation