Miami Police Department

Miami Police Department
Abbreviation	MPD
Patch of the Miami Police Department.
Agency overview
Formed	1896
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	City of Miami in the state of Florida, USA
Map of Miami Police Department's jurisdiction.
Size	55.27 square miles (143.1 km2)
Population	362,470 (2000)
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Police Officers	~1100
Civilians	300
Agency executive	Manuel Orosa, Acting Chief of Police
Districts	3
Website
Miami Police
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Miami Police Department or MPD, often referred to as the City of Miami Police, is the chief police department of the U.S. city of Miami, Florida. Their jurisdiction lies within the actual city limits of Miami, but have mutual aid agreements with neighboring police departments. The current Acting Chief of Police is Acting Chief Manuel Orosa. City of Miami police are distinguishable from their Miami-Dade counterparts by their blue uniforms and blue-and-white patrol vehicles.

There are three patrolling districts and eleven neighborhoods for which the following districts are responsible:

North District

• Liberty City
• Little Haiti
• Upper Eastside

Central District

• Allapattah
• Overtown
• Wynwood/Edgewater
• Downtown Miami

South District

• Flagami
• Little Havana
• Coral Way
• Coconut Grove

Demographics

Breakdown of the makeup of the rank and file of MPD ^[1]:

• Male: 82%
• Female: 18%
• Hispanic: 54%
• African-American/Black: 27%
• White: 19%

Ranks and Insignia

Title	Insignia
Chief of Police
Deputy Chief
Assistant Chief
Major
Commander
Captain
Lieutenant
Senior Patrol Sergeant
Sergeant
Senior Patrol Officer
Police Officer

Rank insignia for Senior Patrol Officer, Sergeant and Senior Patrol Sergeant is worn on the upper sleeves below the shoulder patch while rank insignia for Lieutenant through Chief is worn on the collars of the shirt.

Officers killed in line of duty

Since the establishment of the Miami Police Department, 36 officers have died in the line of duty.^[2]

Officer	Date of Death	Details
Officer John Rhinehart (Bob) Riblet	Wednesday, June 2, 1915	Gunfire
Officer Frank Angelo Croff	Sunday, May 22, 1921	Vehicular assault
Officer Richard Roy Marler	Monday, November 28, 1921	Gunfire (Accidental)
Sergeant Laurie Lafayette Wever	Sunday, March 15, 1925	Gunfire
Officer John D. Marchbanks	Tuesday, February 16, 1926	Struck by vehicle
Officer Samuel J. Callaway	Monday, January 10, 1927	Vehicle pursuit
Officer Jesse L. Morris	Friday, July 8, 1927	Gunfire
Officer Albert R. Johnson	Sunday, September 25, 1927	Gunfire (Accidental)
Detective James Franklin Beckham	Friday, February 3, 1928	Gunfire
Officer Augustus S. McCann	Wednesday, September 26, 1928	Vehicle pursuit
Officer Sidney Clarence Crews	Friday, April 26, 1929	Gunfire
Officer John Brubaker	Friday, March 31, 1933	Automobile accident
Officer Robert Lee Jester	Saturday, November 18, 1933	Gunfire
Officer Samuel D. Hicks	Sunday, August 9, 1936	Vehicular assault
Officer Patrick Howell Baldwin	Friday, March 29, 1940	Automobile accident
Motorcycle Officer Wesley Frank Thompson	Thursday, September 18, 1941	Vehicle pursuit
Police Officer John Milledge	Friday, November 1, 1946	Gunfire
Police Officer Johnnie Young	Saturday, March 8, 1947	Gunfire (Accidental)
Police Officer Frampton Pope Wichman Jr.	Friday, September 24, 1948	Accidental
Police Officer Leroy Joseph LaFleur Sr.	Friday, February 16, 1951	Gunfire
Police Officer James H. Brigman	Wednesday, February 28, 1951	Automobile accident
Police Officer John Thomas Burlinson	Saturday, March 8, 1958	Vehicular assault
Police Officer Jerrel E. Ferguson	Wednesday, November 7, 1962	Gunfire
Police Officer Ronald F. McLeod	Thursday, May 8, 1969	Gunfire
Police Officer Rolland Lane II	Saturday, May 23, 1970	Gunfire
Sergeant Victor Butler Jr.	Saturday, February 20, 1971	Gunfire
Lieutenant Edward F. McDermott	Sunday, May 18, 1980	Heart attack
Police Officer Nathaniel K. Broom	Wednesday, September 2, 1981	Gunfire
Police Officer Jose Raimundo DeLeon	Friday, December 21, 1984	Motorcycle accident
Police Officer David Herring	Wednesday, September 3, 1986	Duty related illness
Police Officer Victor Estefan	Thursday, March 31, 1988	Gunfire
Police Officer William Don Craig	Tuesday, June 21, 1988	Vehicular assault
Police Officer Osvaldo Juan Canalejo Jr.	Tuesday, October 13, 1992	Automobile accident
Officer Carlos A. Santiago	Tuesday, May 30, 1995	Fall
Police Officer William Harris Williams	Monday, July 3, 2000	Motorcycle accident
Detective James Walker	Tuesday, January 8, 2008	Gunfire

See also

	Miami portal
	Law enforcement/Law enforcement topics portal

• List of law enforcement agencies in Florida
• List of U.S. state and local law enforcement agencies

References

1. ^ Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers
2. ^ "The Officer Down Memorial Page". http://www.odmp.org/agency/2647-multnomah-county-sheriffs-office-oregon. 

External links

• Miami Police Department (official website)