The Hot Sheet

The Cleveland Police Museum in honored to tell the stories of our Fallen Officers on the anniversaries of their End of Watch. These officers made the ultimate sacrifice while protecting…

The first emergency motor patrol wagon in Cleveland was purchased in May of 1911 and assigned to the 11th Precinct.  It was an 80-horsepower, four cylinder Peerless fitted with a…

When Eliot Ness became Cleveland’s Public Safety Director, Cleveland had the highest traffic fatality rate in the country. Ness developed a four-pronged approach to address this sad safety record: creation…

Brooklyn Village was annexed by the City of Cleveland in 1889.  Initially, police services were provided by the Officers assigned to the Ninth Precinct until a new Precinct Station was…

The 11th Precinct was established in early 1889 and rooms were rented on the second floor in Ubersax’s Block, 10543 Euclid Avenue near Fairmount (now East 107th) Street.  The territory…

In 1939, the Tenth Precinct Station house was one of six vacant precinct stations converted into a Boys Town Recreation center by Safety Director Eliot Ness.  Organized to combat juvenile…

“The buildings will be of fireproof construction, pressed buff brick and stone exterior finish. The station will be 36 1/2 X 73 and the barns 43X52, and both buildings will…

Beginning in 1937, Safety Director Eliot Ness established the first formal Cleveland Police Training Academy patterned after the training facility run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC. …

It was described in the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “Infinitely superior to any public building in the city is the new West Side Police Station which was formerly opened by…

The new headquarters was opened to the public on August 29th, 1901 with a gala affair.  According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “The ‘house-warming’ and formal opening of the new…

As early as 1869, the patrolman of the Sixth Precinct reported to the Forest Street station house in the Third Precinct, since they did not have a station house of…

Prior to the early 1880s, Cleveland’s Fifth Precinct covered the near west side. As early as 1873, the Fifth Precinct station house sat on a small lot on Barber Avenue,…

In January of 1883 the Cleveland Police Department went through a major reorganization, surpassed only by the enactment of the Metropolitan Police Act in 1866.  Precinct boundaries and the numbering…

The Cleveland Police Museum in honored to tell the stories of our Fallen Officers on the anniversaries of their End of Watch. These officers made the ultimate sacrifice while protecting…