1903
Police Chief Frederick Kohler is appointed Chief of Police. He is later called “the best police chief of the best governed city” by President Theodore Roosevelt
Corner policemen are placed at the city’s busiest corners
1904
Fingerprinting system started
1906
Cleveland street names are changed to a number system
First juvenile detention home in the city opens
1910
Department acquires its first motorcycles
1911
Cleveland's first mounted unit organized
1912
Municipal Court organized
1913
Automobiles used for first time as patrol cars
1919
Line-up room designed and installed
1925
General Electric installs a string of automatic lights along Euclid Avenue. They are controlled by men in a signal tower
Police Women's Bureau is formed
1926
New Central Station on Payne Ave. opens
1929
Cleveland Police Radio station established
Chief Frederick Kohler
In August of 1910 Chief Fred Kohler shared the rear platform of President Theodore Roosevelt’s train when the former president was in town to promote his new “Bull Moose Party”
“Black Maria.” A 1915 Cleveland-built White Motors ¾ ton Police Emergency Patrol Wagon was used for conveying the sick and injured to the hospital, and criminals to jail
Motorcycles became a part of the Cleveland Police Department inventory in 1911. Patrolman Walter Zema is riding an Indian, circa 1920s
This group of Cleveland Police Officers is posing with their 1921 Peerless patrol car. The officer second from the right can be identified as the driver because of the gauntlets he is wearing.
