The Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission's Police Department; the Massachusetts Metro Police was created in 1893. Originally named The Metropolitan Park Police they were renamed the Metropolitan District Police in 1920 and were assigned to the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety in 1990 as the Department of Metropolitan Police. The Metroplitan Police were utilzed extensively throu
ghout Massachusetts prior to the formation of the Uniformed branch of the State Police in 1921. Examples of this include labor strikes in Lowell, Lawrence, Worcester and during the 1919 Boston Police Strike. The Metro Police had primary jurisdiction of law enforcement on all MDC and MWRA controlled properties and roadways. Additionally, the Metro Police had primary patrol jurisdiction on US Route 1 in Chelsea and Revere and Interstate 93 in Suffolk County (Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway) . The Metro Police also shared concurrent law enforcement jurisdcition throughout Greater Boston. The Metro Police were the third largest police agency in New England with over six hundred officers working primarily throughout Metropolitan Boston. In addition to patrol functions the Metro Police provided tactical assistance to the federal government and Greater Boston area cities and towns in the form of l SWAT teams, the TOP squad (moblie operations) the Marine Unit, the Airwing and the Special Operations Unit. Examples include Tactical Officers assigned to the city of Boston during court ordered school desegregation, assignment as the primary security agency for the Department of State with the responsibility of providing security and escorts for visiting dignitaries, SWAT teams used for high risk entries, Community Policing duties in Greater Boston and annual assignments to assist cities and towns during the Boston Marathon. The Metro Police also maintained a full service Bureau of Investigative services that encompaased department Detectives, undercover narcotics detectives and detectives assigned to the Special Assignment Division. These officers were assigned varied department respionsibilities including the investigation of felony crimes on the departments primary jurisdiction, homicides for the Suffolk County District Attorney's office in Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop, narcotics detectives and undercover agents to assist area cities and towns, investigators for the state Attorney Generals Office, detectives and undercover agents for the Norfolk and Suffolk County District Attorney's offices, area Drug Task Forces, the Governor's Auto Theft Strike Force, the DEA Boston Drug Task Force, the Secret Service, U.S Customs and the FBI. Metro Officers killed in the line of duty include;
Detective Joseph Elmer McCain
Massachusetts State/Metro Police
EOW: Monday, October 22, 2001
Cause: Gunfire, shot and died as a result of a drug raid in Hyde Park. Captain Richard J. (Rick) Cashin
Massachusetts State/Metro Police
EOW: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Cause: Automobile accident
Trooper Drew Chandler
Massachusetts State/Metro Police
EOW: July 21, 2000
Cause: Illness contracted on duty
Trooper James Brian Malloy
Massachusetts State/Metro Police
EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1997
Cause: Heart attack
Officer Robert P. Dana
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Sunday, March 25, 1984
Cause: Gunfire, shot and killed in Milton, MA. Patrolman Paul Michael Kennefick
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Wednesday, July 14, 1982
Cause: Automobile accident
Patrolman Thomas J. Sullivan
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Saturday, October 5, 1929
Cause: Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Fred G. Mercer
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Thursday, September 20, 1923
Cause: Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Irving B. Harding
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Friday, October 11, 1918
Cause: Motorcycle accident
Patrolman Robert D. Stewart
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Saturday, February 8, 1913
Cause: Animal related
Patrolman William Mateer
Metropolitan Police Department
EOW: Sunday, January 10, 1909
Cause: Drowned saving a life at Houghtons Pond
Sources; Many photographs and information from Mike Rubino at ;
http://home.comcast.net/~mmrubino/site/?/home/&PHPSESSID=9f47ab433d127d4874c503fe7fddf566
Officers killed in the line of duty; http://www.odmp.org/agency/2382-massachusetts-state-police-massachusetts
Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_law_enforcement_agencies_of_Massachusetts
