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The Connecticut State Police was created under House Bill #247 on May 29, 1903. Initially, five men, paid three dollars a day, were hired to enforce state liquor and vice laws, making it one of the oldest State Police forces in the nation. [3]
The total offense rate in Connecticut is 1,718 offenses per 100,000 (as of 2021), considerably below the national rate of 2,329 per 100,000. [1] The report also includes Crime Index statistics, used to compare across states, which is based on the rates of several crimes against persons (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault), and several property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, and ...
] WVSP is the 4th oldest State Police agency in the United States of America. Governor John Jacob Cornwell was insistent upon having a State Police force which he said, "was mandatory in order for him to uphold the laws of our state." Part of the compromise was the name of the organization: "West Virginia Department of Public Safety" was the ...
A former Connecticut police officer is suspected of being a serial burglar and committing 30 or more thefts in three states, including the community he had patrolled until recently. A newly ...
The ambush killings of two Connecticut police officers was likely fueled by an angry interaction the gunman had with police earlier, along with building pressures in his personal life and his ...
A woman walked into a Connecticut police station and opened fire, shown in footage released by the state's Office of Inspector General. The woman, identified as 51-year-old Suzanne Laprise ...
The Department of Police Service headquarters, located on Union Avenue, was built in 1973. It was designed by Douglas Orr, deCossy, Winder and Associates in the brutalist style. [7] In the mid-1970s, an FBI agent was tasked with going undercover in the New Haven mob world. He found that police, politicians, and mobsters were all working ...
State police are conducting a review after a New Milford police officer’s gun was discharged this week when he was attacked while responding to a call, police said. The incident was reported ...