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Seattle P.D. badge from the late 1910s Regular patrolmen in uniform at Seattle Hempfest Seattle policemen in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic A Seattle Police car on patrol near 2nd Ave downtown. The Seattle police force was established in 1869 with the election of John T. Jordan as the first town marshal.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents.
Seattle has dedicated millions to police recruitment efforts. The city’s advertising and marketing budget for police recruitment was $2.3 million in 2024 and is $2.5 million in 2025.
King County Metro Transit Police, a unit of the sheriff's office, [18] do have their own style of patrol car specific to Metro Police, and their uniform with the standard King County Sheriff patch. The city of North Bend contracted with the KCSO from 1973 until March 8, 2014, when the City of Snoqualmie Police Department took over the policing ...
The Seattle Justice Center is a 13-story government office building in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located at 600 5th Avenue in the city's civic center complex and houses the Municipal Court of Seattle and the headquarters of the Seattle Police Department . [ 1 ]
The Washington Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that will determine whether the names of four Seattle police officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of the ...
The Seattle Police Officers Guild, the police union, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The investigation comes at a turbulent time for the police department.
In 1937, four years after the force was reconstituted as the Washington State Patrol, blue uniforms were adopted and neckties were replaced with bowties; the longer form of neckwear had a tendency to flap in the breeze when a trooper was on motorcycle duty. [2] The State Patrol switched from wearing peaked hats to campaign hats in 1963. [5]