Photo Gallery and Newspaper Articles

Timeline

Early Salem until 1913 

Early Winston until 1913 

Winston and Salem consolidated 1913

• Border of Salem and Winston (1913) 
• Police Motorcycles (1919) 
• Fingerprint System (1920) 
• First Captain (1920) 
• Traffic Booths (1921) [pdf] 
• Photography (1921) 
• Recruit Training School (September 1921)
• Police Training Manual (1922)
• New City Hall is Police headquarters (1926)
• The ‘Spider Gang’ (1931)
• Police Radios (1933)
• First African-American Police Officer (1933)
• Cross-indexing Record System (1940)
• Tobacco factory strike of 1946
• First sworn-in female (1947)
• One-way Streets (1948)
• Driver’s education for teens (1949)
• Old Jail in City Hall (1950s)
• The Intoximeter (1951)
• "The Whammy” – first radar (1952) [pdf] 
• Movie projector and 16 mm camera (1952)
• Meter Maids (1952)
• New Switchboard (1955)
• Driver Training added to Recruit Training (1958)
• Fire and Police Communications merged (1958)
• Breathalyzer (1959)
• Police Records and Identification (1960)
• Police shoulder patch – All American City (1960)
• Canine Unit established (1963)
• Photo Lab (1963)
• New Police Shoulder Patch (1963)
• Public Safety established (1963)
• Police Academy opened on Link Rd. (1963)
• Range purchased (1972)
• Team Policing (1975)
• Television equipment (1977)
• Victim Services Unit (1986)
• D.A.R.E. Program (1990)
• Memorial approved (1993)