Talk:Massachusetts State Police

message: Governor of Massachusetts
The article states that the State Police was founded by Governor Calvin Coolidge in 1865, but the Governor at that time was John Albion Andrew, Coolidge is recorded as being Governor from 1919 to 1921, Coolidge was born in 1872 so is the date of founding wrong?.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.40.222 (talk) 04:38, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

message: If this article listed its sources, it would be an excellent addition to Wikipedia:Good articles. -- llywrch 16:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  For the parts of the article I wrote, I mainly combbled together information from the Mass. State Police website, knowledge from friends in Massachusetts who're familiar with the State Police, and a smattering of articles from the Boston Globe tracking controversies regarding the diversity of the MSP. It'd be kickass if this was listed as a "good article", though to be honest it would be a big pain to have to track down articles on the Globe since most of them get archived for a fee Sol. v. Oranje 02:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: Just to add to info:
The MSP has Ford Tauruses used for agressive driver enforcement. They are unmarked-patrol with many lights. The Taurus are not just for ranking officers and detectives.
Ford Fusions, Ford Explorers and Ford Focuses are also used for ranking officers and detectives.
(The Explorers are also used in the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit -- targetings mostly Tractor-Trailers.)
There are also many other vehicles which I will not list. Good article, good information.
===Helicopters===
Air Wing uses AS 355s, not Bell 206s, edited to make up for that Kilonum (talk) 22:33, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  additional information about vehicles 

message: Air Wing uses AS 355s, not Bell 206s, edited to make up for that Kilonum (talk) 22:33, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Helicopters

message: This article should say something about the troopers assigned to the various District Attorney's offices. Working together with officers assigned from other departments, these units are a very important part of the investigative effort for homicides and other serious crimes. --Conant Webb 01:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CPAC Units 

message: I find this article rather confusing in the way it designates its subject. In places it talks about the Massachusetts State Police and in others just State Police, which is fine as a shorter form given the context of the article.
But then it starts talking about the Department of State Police without really explaining what is meant. Are we talking about a different police organisation (perhaps the internal police of the Massachusetts Department of State), a department of the Massachusetts state government responsible for managing/funding the MSP, a part of the MSP, a different name for the same thing, or what. To make it even more confusing, we then get the Division of State Police!. Can somebody copy edit the article to explain. Thanks. -- Chris j wood 14:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion on names 

message: Before you go reinserting the pictures,consider WP:FAIRUSE#Policy_2 "As few non-free content uses as possible are included in each article and in Wikipedia as a whole". So before you go re-adding them consider this. SashaCall 06:41, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images in [[Massachusetts_State_Police#MSP_in_popular_culture|Pop Culture Section]] 

message: Remember that everything in Wikipedia has to be sourced from reliable published sources per WP:V. Personal knowledge, however authentic, is not acceptable. Gordonofcartoon 21:15, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing

message: If anyone can refine the links to the towns with the barracks list it would be awesome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbta108 (talk • contribs) 03:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Refining the Town Names in the Troops Section

message: Well, several years after this discussion started, CSP own website now (re)states that "The Connecticut State Police is one of the oldest state police agencies in the United States" -- and not the oldest as it previously said. It now appears that it is generally accepted Massachusetts State Police is the oldest state law enforcement agency in the country. Most articles on the web put MSP birthdate in 1865 instead of 1921, a date seen as when the agency expanded its manpower rather than its creation. MSP website reads, "The Massachusetts State Police was created in 1865, making it the oldest statewide law enforcement agency in the nation." With both agencies no longer contradicting themselves -- and their respective entries on here relaying the facts -- the case seems closed. - Ramses Coly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramsescoly (talk • contribs) 05:59, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Case resolved, it seems

message: Is there an Executive Protection unit responsible for protecting the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, like in New York and Connecticut? Perhaps we could add it to the page? 74.69.11.229 (talk) 16:11, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  protection unit 

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