DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND STATE POLICE

Colonel Carey Jarman, Superintendent, 1963
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Weber, Executive Officer
Major George E. Davidson, Field Commander
Major Wilbour H. Conroy, Adjutant
Major Martin M. Puncke, Chief, Training-Personnel Division
Captain Louis Bloom, Chief, Communications Division
Captain Charles W. Magaha, Chief, Identification and

Investigation Division

Captain James T. Knight, Chief, Quartermaster Division
Lieutenant Hugh 1. Kavanagh, Jr., Chief, Central Accident

Records Division
Howard M. Bubert, M.D., Chief, Medical Division

Headquarters, Pikesville 8 Telephone: HUnter 6-3101

The Department of State Police, established by Chapter 303, Acts
of 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 jurisdic-
tion in all parts of the State, except within the limits of any incor-
porated 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 ex-
ecutive 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 De-
partment also licenses all private detectives within the State (Code
1957, Art. 56, sec. 76).

The Department operates an Identification and Investigation Di-
vision. 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 depart-
ments throughout 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 Commis-
sion. 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 sev-
enteen 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 transmits
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 ambulances
throughout the State for service to rural areas and for emergency
service where there are accidents. It operates a Training School for
Maryland State Police recruits and other law enforcement officers of
Maryland (Code 1957, sec. II). The Department carries on its work
through its local barracks located throughout the State as follows: