DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND STATE POLICE

Colonel Carey Jarman, Superintendent, 1963
Lieutenant (colonel William H. Weber, Executive Officer
Major George E. Davidson, Field Force Commander
Major Wilbur H. Conroy, Adjutant
Major Martin M. Puncke, Director, Training-Personnel Division
Captain Charles W. Magaha, Chief, Identification and Investi-
gation Division

Captain J. T. Knight, Quartermaster Division Commander
Lieutenant Hugh 1. Kavanagh, Jr., Commanding, Central Acci-
dent Records Bureau
Howard M. Bubert, M.D„ Medical Director

Headquarters, Pikesville 8 Telephone: Hunter 6-3101

The Department of State Police, established in 1935, is directed by
the Superintendent, who is appointed by the Governor for a four-year
term. The Maryland State Police enforce the criminal and motor
vehicle laws of the State. They have jurisdiction in all parts of the
State, except within the limits of any incorporated municipality which
maintains a police force; and they have jurisdiction within such limits
(1) when in pursuit of an offender or suspected offender, (2) in search
of an offender or suspect wanted for a crime committed in another
jurisdiction, (3) when seeking to interview a witness to a crime, (4)
when requested by the chief executive officer or the chief police officer
of the municipality, or when ordered by the Governor, or (5) when
enforcing the motor vehicle laws of the State (Code 1957, Art. 88B,
sees. 3, 4, 20, 23). The Department also licenses all private detectives
within the State (Code 1957, Art. 66, sec. 76).

The Department operates an Identification and Investigation Divi-
sion. The Division maintains fingerprint and photograph files and
cooperates with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the police
forces of other jurisdictions in the exchange of information that might
help identify offenders or suspects. The General Assembly in 1953
established the Central Accident Records Bureau. This Bureau receives
reports of accidents from the various local police departments through-
out the State, tabulates and analyzes such reports, and prepares a
monthly summary and analysis of all accidents, which is published in
cooperation with the Maryland Traffic Safety Commission. A Traffic
Staff within the Department promotes traffic safety and traffic safety
education. The members of the staff speak before civic groups and
organizations and plan to build a library of motion pictures and related
visual aids (Code 1957, Art. 88B, sees. 42-47).

The Communication Bureau, established in 1935, provides radio and
teletype communication service with the various police barracks
throughout the State. It is a unit in a teletype network covering
fourteen states and the District of Columbia (Code 1957, Art. 88B,
sees. 38-41). The Bureau also provides radio communication service to
the patrol boats of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries. It trans-
mits the latest weather forecasts to the District headquarters of the
State Roads Commission and to the local barracks for dispatch to
County Agricultural Agents. The Department maintains ten ambu-
lances throughout the State for service to rural areas and for emer-
gency service where there are accidents. It operates a Training School
for Maryland State Police recruits and other law enforcement officers
of Maryland. The Department carries on its work through its local
barracks located throughout the State as follows:

Southern Maryland, Troop A
Waldorf Barrack
Post I, Annapolis
Post 2, Rockville