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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) – On Monday, officials with the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) talked with members of the Montgomery County Council Public Safety Committee ...
Former Lt. Governor Anthony Brown delivers Commencement Address at the 138th Maryland State Police Trooper Graduation in 2012 According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 142 law enforcement agencies employing 16,013 sworn police officers, about 283 for each 100,000 ...
Baltimore reported 223 homicides in 2010. The number of all violent crimes for the city has declined from 21,799 in 1993 to 9,316 in 2010. Even with stark population decline taken into account—Baltimore went from 732,968 residents in 1993 to 620,961 in 2010—the drop in violent crime was significant, falling from 3.0 incidents per 100 residents to 1.6 incidents per 100 residents.
The MCPD was established in early July 1922, absorbing some responsibilities from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) through Chapter 259 of the Acts of 1922. At the time, the department was designated to consist of three to six officers that were appointed to two-year terms by the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, with one officer designated as the chief.
On the morning of March 11, 2014, officers from the Montgomery County Police Department, Maryland State Police, Rockville City Police, and Prince George's County Police acting on a tip set up a roadblock on across all 12-lanes on Interstate 270 and walked car to car with pistols, shotguns and semiautomatic rifles searching for three armed bank ...
The last new county formation in Maryland occurred when Garrett County was formed in 1872 from portions of Allegany County. [2] However, there have been numerous changes to county borders since that time, most recently when portions of the city of Takoma Park that had previously been part of Prince George's County were absorbed into Montgomery County in 1997.
The Maryland state legislature named Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery; the county was created from lands that had at one point or another been part of Frederick County. [14] On September 6, 1776, [ 3 ] Thomas Sprigg Wootton from Rockville, Maryland, introduced legislation, while serving at the Maryland Constitutional Convention, to ...
Shady Grove is an unincorporated area of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. [1] It has a population of 5,000-7,000, between the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg , mostly in zip codes 20850 and 20855, though the exact boundaries are not officially defined.