A blog of police cars, police motorcycles, the occasional ambulance & fire truck"Born with a soul that had courage to wear the shield..."
"God forbid the days we wrap our shields in black."
PWFD #2219
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Police Cars & Other interesting things
United States Department of Homeland Security Border Patrol Checkpoint Station Murietta and California Highway Patrol Weigh Station along Interstate 15 North at the Riverside and San Diego County lines.
Adam Elmer Jansen (below) was forty-four when he became the twenty-third man to be San Diego’s Chief of Police on October 16, 1947. His tenure of fourteen years, upon retirement in 1962, was the longest in the history of the force. Jansen once said he joined the police department because he wanted to become Chief of Police. On assuming the office, he put into practice all he had learned and planned during the years he was coming up through the ranks.
The above photograph of San Diego Deputy City Marshals was taken prior to the May 16, 1889 formation of a city police force under a “Freeholder’s Charter.” Only two of the men shown here were still on the police department’s assignment sheet for October 1889, four months after Marshal Joseph Coyne (below) was made San Diego’s first Chief of Police.
