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The Stamford Police Department (SPD) is Stamford's only police force, and has lost four officers in the line of service since 1938. The police force has about 280 sworn police officers making it the fifth largest police force in Connecticut after Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Waterbury. [96]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Connecticut.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 143 law enforcement agencies employing 8,281 sworn police officers, about 236 for each 100,000 residents.
Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee who was raised by and lived with Sandra Herold in Stamford, Connecticut.On February 16, 2009, he attacked and mauled Herold's friend, Charla Nash, blinding her, severing several body parts, and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by responding Officer Frank Chiafari.
He is a lifelong Stamford resident whose grandchildren represent the fifth generation of his family in the city. He is the founder, Owner, and Director of Pavia Development LLC, a Stamford-based residential , commercial real estate managing, and construction business.
Frédéric André Sargeant (born July 29, 1948) [1] is a French-American gay rights activist and a former lieutenant with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department. [2] He participated in each of the nights of the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the four co-founders of the first NYC Pride March march in Manhattan in 1970.
Jeph Loeb, comic book, screen, and television writer, and television and motion picture producer, grew up in Stamford [23] [24] J. D. Salinger (1919–2010), author of The Catcher In The Rye, lived in north Stamford briefly in the late 1940s [25] Chuck Scarborough (born 1943), television news anchor, lives in North Stamford
The Southfield Village was a housing project in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] It was also known as "The V" by individuals living in that area. The area had been denoted by Stamford Police as "the most dangerous subsidized housing complex in Stamford."
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]