Milestones for Nassau Police, 85 years on
Quick ReadThe Board of Supervisors formed a committee, and on April 16, 1925, formally established the Nassau County Police Department.
Photo credit: Newsday archive | The original communications room of the Nassau County police in 1928. Patrol cars could not speak to headquarters. It was a one-way conversation.
A look inside the Nassau County Police Museum
Fallen Nassau police officers
LI police vehicles through the years
Notable LI crimes through the years
It was a time when criminals had a new weapon in their arsenal - the automobile - so they could slip over one town line into another and disappear into the muddling maze of jurisdictions that was 1920s Nassau.
To address that problem, the county's governing body, the Board of Supervisors, formed a committee, and on April 16, 1925, formally established the Nassau County Police Department.
Eighty-five...
