Waco Police Department - City of Waco, Texas

Providing the Waco Community with professionalism, integrity, accountability and respect, to preserve life and property, to enforce the law within the framework of the Constitution and to work in partnership with thecommunity to enhance the quality of life in Waco.

The Waco Police Department employs over 240 officers and responds to over 120,000 calls annually.

About the Department

The Waco Police Department began with the election of a Town Marshall, as provided by thefirst city charter, in 1871.

The city charter called for annual electionsand gave the Mayor the power to appointfour officers that year. Every year, after the election, special committees made recommendations to the Mayor on who should be hired as city employees.

Sometimes the police department would have a whole new staff every year. Some form of this system of hiring and firing was usedall the way up to the 1930s.

The largest definitive turning point in the history of the Waco Police Department, the Public Administration Survey of 1956 marks thedepartment's transition into a modern police department.

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Waco Police Department - City of Waco, Texas

About the Department

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