How the Framingham police department has changed in 35 years | ||
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Positions | 1973 | 2008 |
Chief | 1 | 1 |
Deputy Chiefs | 3 | |
Captains | 2 | 1 |
Lieutenant | 6 | 13 |
Sergeants | 10 | 13 |
Patrolman | 68 | 86 |
Provisional patrolman | 16 | |
Maintainenance man | 1 | 1 |
Civilian clerks | 4 | 4.5 |
Dispatchers | 5 | |
Animal Control Officers | 3 | |
Parking Enforcement Officers | 1 | |
Crossing Guards | 17 | |
Totals | 108 | 148.5 |
The town population in 1973 was about 64,068.
The town population in 2008 was about 64,786
It's interesting to see how functions like Dispatchers, Animal Control
We also doubled our lieutenants and acquired 3 deputy chiefs. The department has the following divisions and sections:
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There exists in the British Museum a plaintive letter written
on papyrus in A.D. 288, signed by
Servaeus Africanus, addressed to the district governors of Middle
Egypt and reading as follows:
It is apparent from the accounts alone that a number of persons wishing to batten on the estates of the Treasury have invented titles for themselves such as controllers, secretaries or superintendents, whereby they procure no advantage to the Treasury but swallow up the profits. (Papyrus 752) |
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