Pensacola Police

By Mike Simmons The Friday, February 2, 1951, edition of the Pensacola News Journal reported that Pensacola Police Chief Crosby Hall was at a meeting at the office of City […]

On January 22, 1908, a pocket-sized police manual was distributed to the force. A few of the orders and rules are interesting and bear repeating… Interesting…

By Mike Simmons The November 21, 1907 edition of the Pensacola News Journal published an article entitled, “HE HUGS AND THEN ESCAPES.” The article nicknamed the bandit “Jack the Hugger,”

By Mike Simmons On the front page of the Pensacola Journal, Tuesday, October 18, 1906, was an article about the new Pensacola Police Headquarters building. For the first time, a

By Mike Simmons 1821 – James Craig was appointed the first Pensacola Police Officer. He was a former Andrew Jackson soldier and most recently a citizen of Pensacola. When he

By Mike Simmons Below is a recently found photo of five Pensacola Police Officers proudly posing in downtown Pensacola in 1920. The department had recently transitioned to their new uniforms.

By Mike Simmons The beginning of the year 1935 brought with it some major changes to the Pensacola Police Department under the direction of Chief of Police William O’Connell. The

By Mike Simmons Sgt. Elmer Powell is the oldest living Police officer in West Florida. After serving three years in the US Army, he joined the Pensacola Police Department in

By Mike Simmons “If you’ve seen one police department, you’ve seen ‘em all,” said no one ever. The truth is, “if you’ve seen one police department, you’ve seen…one police department.”