Miami Police Department

Miami Police Department
Abbreviation	MPD
Patch of the Miami Police Department.
Agency overview
Formed	1896
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	City of Miami in the state of Florida, USA
Map of Miami Police Department's jurisdiction.
Size	55.27 square miles (143.1 km2)
Population	362,470 (2000)
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Police Officers	~1100
Civilians	300
Agency executive	Manuel Orosa, Acting Chief of Police
Districts	3
Website
Miami Police
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Miami Police Department or MPD, often referred to as the City of Miami Police, is the chief police department of the U.S. city of Miami, Florida. Their jurisdiction lies within the actual city limits of Miami, but have mutual aid agreements with neighboring police departments. Currently Manuel Orosa is the chief of police. City of Miami police are distinguishable from their Miami-Dade counterparts by their blue uniforms and blue-and-white patrol vehicles.

There are three patrolling districts and eleven neighborhoods for which the following districts are responsible:

North District

• Liberty City
• Little Haiti
• Upper Eastside

Central District

• Allapattah
• Overtown
• Wynwood/Edgewater
• Downtown Miami

South District

• Flagami
• Little Havana
• Coral Way
• Coconut Grove

Demographics [edit]

Breakdown of the makeup of the rank and file of MPD

^[1]

• Male: 82%
• Female: 18%
• Hispanic: 54%
• African-American/Black: 27%
• White: 19%

Ranks and Insignia [edit]

Title	Insignia
Chief of Police
Deputy Chief
Assistant Chief
Major
Commander
Captain
Lieutenant
Senior Patrol Sergeant
Sergeant
Senior Patrol Officer
Police Officer

Rank insignia for Senior Patrol Officer, Sergeant and Senior Patrol Sergeant is worn on the upper sleeves below the shoulder patch while rank insignia for Lieutenant through Chief is worn on the collars of the shirt.

Controversy [edit]

On October 11, 2011, MPD Officer Fausto Lopez was speeding to a moonlighting job at up to 120 mph when he was caught by a state trooper after a 7 minute chase, with the video going viral on YouTube. The state trooper initially believed that the MPD cruiser had been stolen, so Lopez was arrested at gunpoint and handcuffed. This started a feud between the Florida Highway Patrol and the MPD (who regarded the arrest as an overreaction), involving police blog accusations and insults, posters attacking the state trooper who stopped Lopez, and someone smearing feces on another trooper's patrol car.^[2] An investigation by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in February 2012 examined SunPass toll records and found that 800 cops from a dozen South Florida agencies drove their cruisers above 90 mph in 2011, mostly while off duty. As a result of the Sun-Sentinel report, 158 state troopers and officers were disciplined mostly receiving a reprimand and losing their take-home cars for up to six months. Lopez, who was found to have drove 90 mph on more than 80 occasions, was suspended with pay in early July 2012 and terminated from the Miami Police on September 13, 2012.^[3]

Officers who died in the line of duty [edit]

Since the establishment of the Miami Police Department, 36 officers have died in the line of duty.^[4]

See also [edit]

	Miami portal
	Law enforcement/Law enforcement topics portal

• List of law enforcement agencies in Florida
• List of U.S. state and local law enforcement agencies

References [edit]

1. ^ Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ [2]
4. ^ "The Officer Down Memorial Page". 

External links [edit]

• Miami Police Department (official website)

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