Massachusetts State Police Keeping the Commonwealth Safe
[From article]
Massachusetts State Police have investigated 64 homicides across the state in 2015. State troopers, who investigate homicides in the vast majority of Massachusetts communities with the assistance of local police, have solved 47 of those, for a 73 percent clearance rate. Those statistics exclude Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield.
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Also this year, State Police detectives have responded to 755 fatal suspected heroin overdoses. Official cause of death in these cases is determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but State Police classify them as suspected heroin overdoses because of evidence found at the scene, including drug paraphernalia, or statements of witnesses who were with the deceased immediately prior to death. Of the 755 suspected fatal heroin overdoses, 591 victims were male, 164, female.
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Also thus far in 2015, State Police have made 3,865 arrests of drivers operating under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.
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The Department of State Police marked its 150th anniversary in 2015. The agency that would grow into the State Police, the State Constabulary, was established in 1865, several weeks after the end of the Civil War.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20151231/mass-state-police-release-2015-data-
Mass. State Police release 2015 data
Posted Dec. 31, 2015 at 1:57 PM
Updated at 2:00 PM
Editor's note: The following information was provided Thursday afternoon, Dec. 31, by the public relations department of the Mass. state police.
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