Maryland Transportation Authority Police
| Maryland Transportation Authority Police | |
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| Abbreviation | MdTA Police |
Patch of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1994 (Origin in 1957) |
| Employees | 600 Approx (as of 2010) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Maryland, USA |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Dundalk, Maryland |
| Officers | 500 Approx (as of 2010) |
| Civilians | 100 Approx (as of 2010) |
| Agency executive | Colonel Jerry Jones, Chief Of Police |
| Facilities | |
| Detachments | 12 |
| Website | |
| http://www.mdta.maryland.gov/Police/policeMain.html | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Maryland Transportation Authority Police is the seventh largest law enforcement agency in Maryland and is charged with providing law enforcement services on Maryland Transportation Authority highways and facilities throughout the state of Maryland in addition to contractual services that are provided at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, and the Port of Baltimore.
The Maryland Transportation Authority Police trace their beginnings to the opening of the new Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and the Harbor Tunnel Thruway connecting highways (now part of Interstate 895) which crosses under the Patapsco River of Baltimore's Harbor by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works in 1957, when the municipal "Harbor Tunnel Thruway Special Police Force" was established. In 1971, this force developed a State-authorized Police Academy, Commercial Vehicle Safety Division, police-apprenticeship program, and an Honor/Color Guard. An additional under-harbor tunnel was added in the mid-1970s with the construction of the parallel Fort McHenry tunnel for Interstate 95. In 1998, by act of the Maryland General Assembly the previous Maryland Port Administration Police was abolished and the members were merged into the larger Maryland Transportation Authority Police under the new Maryland Department of Transportation. The new police force assumed law enforcement responsibilities for the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore facilities including the Canton, Seagirt, Dundalk, Clinton Street, Fairfield and Locust Point Marine Terminals, as well as the downtown Baltimore World Trade Center on East Pratt Street at the "Inner Harbor". Today the MDTA Police force has grown to encompass law enforcement responsibilities at all of Maryland's transportation facilities projects, also including the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, and the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore.
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