Police Buildings: Twelfth Precinct, 8312 Detroit, built in 1895
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…
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Police Buildings: Eleventh Precinct, 1963 E. 105th Street, 1893-1961
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…
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Police Buildings: Tenth Precinct, 2061 W. 53rd, 1882-1952
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…
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Police Buildings: Ninth Precinct, 3187 W. 25th, built in 1901
“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…
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Police Training: You’re Under Arrest, 1930s style!
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. …
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Police Buildings: Eighth Precinct, 2885 Detroit, ca 1892
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…
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Police Buildings: Seventh Precinct, 8207 Broadway, ca 1901
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…
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Police Buildings: Sixth Precinct, 3333 E. 55th, ca 1882
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…
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Police Buildings: Fifth Precinct, 2559 East 79th, ca. 1896
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,…
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Police Buildings: Fourth Precinct, 1888 E. 55th, ca. 1896
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…
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2019 Police Week Events
Join the Cleveland Police Museum in celebrating our men and women in blue and honoring the memory of the Cleveland officers who gave their lives in service to our community…
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“The Little Lost Girl” Painting
The painting of a policeman guiding and protecting a small girl has graced the walls of the Cleveland Police Department, and now the Cleveland Police Museum, for many years. Many…
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