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High Point Police Force Grows From Four to Forty-One Over 21 Years
Chief E A McGhee recalls the High Point police department expanding from four officers in 1909 to forty-one on active duty with six sergeants four detectives four motorcycle officers and a jailer. He notes changing crimes tougher escapes and the shift from manual patrols to modern systems while recounting a dramatic pursuit of a boy’s father involved in a deadly incident.
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High Point
E. A. McGhee
McGhee
Ben Ridge
J. P. Myers
H. O. Hayworth
Bureau of Identification
W. P. Ragan
Chief McGhee
Ridge
John Nolls, Jr
Craven
Nolils
Jamestown
Greensboro
Raleigh
Durham
W. F. Taylor
W. G. Friddle
W. R. Matheson
L. W. Blackwelder
R. A. Hampton
C. H. Whitlow
R. R. Smith
Ray Nance
S. E. Batley
M. C. Hoover
J. O. Pike
Z. O. Dorsett
Earl Dowdy
B. R. Lowe
T. C. Stamey
R. F. Russell
L. S. Deal
J. C. Hoover
J. H. Hubbard
Sam Crowson
D. A. Fowler
T. D. Wall
A. P. Samuels
W. E. Kiger
S. S. Swanson
J. R. Davis
J. H. Belton
M. T. Dowdy
W. H. Hollingsworth
I. D. Venable
H. E. Wade
W. A. Cecil
J. W. Mooney
W. J. Stout
W. G. Metcalf
W L. Calkins
W. N. Kinney
J. R. Dixon
C. W. Upton
D. H. Parsons
B. ©. Ridge
P. ©. Oakes
W. H. Welch
City Hall
Knox
York
K. F. Ellington