Starting in 1821 with the earliest sheriff in Marion County, public safety has a long record of service in Indianapolis. This digital archive spans much of the Indianapolis Police Department (IPD) and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) histories. Inside you will find arrest logs from the early 1900s, information about some of the very first policewomen, mug shots from the turn of the century, IPD personnel records, and video footage of policing from the 1980s and 1990s. 

Founded in 1854 as the Indianapolis Police Department, the principal law enforcement agency of Indianapolis, Indiana, it was consolidated with the Marion County Sheriff's Office in 2007 and became the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD). This collection consists of a series of Indianapolis Police Department biographies the Indianapolis Sentinel ran in 1904.