Miami Beach Police Department
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| Miami Beach Police Department | |
| Abbreviation | MBPD |
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| Patch of the Miami Beach Police Department. | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Miami Beach in the state of Florida, USA |
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| Map of Miami Beach Police Department's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 18.7 square miles (48 km2) |
| Population | 87,779 (2010) |
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| Headquarters | Miami Beach, Florida |
| Agency executive | Carlos Noriega, Chief of Police |
| Districts | 3 |
| Website | |
| Miami Beach Police | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Miami Beach Police Department is the police department of the U.S. city of Miami Beach, Florida, patrolling the entire Miami Beach area, although they sometimes cooperate with the county-wide Miami-Dade Police Department. The Miami Beach Police are famous for their bicycle patrols, which wear dark blue shorts and white short-sleeve uniform tops. The bicycle patrols were created due to the frequent traffic congestion of the Miami Beach isles (particularly in the famous Ocean Drive area on South Beach). Bicycle patrols go where patrol vehicles cannot, but they also perform traffic duties.[1]
There are even some patrol officers in rollerskates. The Miami Beach Police wear dark blue trousers with dark blue shirts, and have red, white, and blue patrol vehicles however, the department is in the process of switching over to black and white patrol vehicles by the end of 2008.
The current Chief of the Department is Chief Carlos Noriega.[2]
Former Miami Heat now Boston Celtics center Shaquille O'Neal was a reserve officer for the Miami Beach Police Department.
[edit] Gallery
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Miami Beach Police Department in the morning
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A Ford Crown Vic on Ocean Drive
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CSI van
[edit] References
- ^ Homepage of Flagler Beach Police Department, retrieved on July 25, 2009
- ^ Official homepage of the MBPD, retrieved on July 25, 2009
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