• New Century Club learns about the Toledo Police Department
    New Century Club learns about the Toledo Police Department
  • From left: Wava Hawker, Joanne West and Sue Stevenson.
    From left: Wava Hawker, Joanne West and Sue Stevenson.

    Members of the New Century Club went to the Toledo Police Museum recently. There they found a great deal of history of the Toledo Police as well as technology.

    According to one of the informational displays, it was in “1867 that the Ohio legislature passed the Metropolitan Police Law, which required a full-time paid police force for the City of Toledo”—at 8 a.m. on April 27, 1867, the “MPs, as they…