Question 8. What year was the Baltimore County Police Department established?
Answer: On April 11, 1874, the Maryland Legislature authorized the Baltimore County Commissioners “to appoint such number of policemen as they may deem necessary…the number not to exceed thirty at any one time…” A second provision said that “the pay of each policeman shall be two dollars per day, except such police as may be mounted; and mounted policemen shall furnish their own horses, trappings, equipments and forage for horses and the pay….shall be three dollars per day.”