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Since the early 1990s, the Somerville Police Department's Community Policing Unit (CPU) has partnered with the community and created a line of communication to form a safe and secure environment. School programs D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a collaborative program in which local law enforcement and schools join together to educate students about the...

Early department history The regularly organized police force began August 12, 1889, prior to which time the arresting officers of the law were known as constables and were not uniformed. As taken from the Board of Commissioners the beginning of the police department was on August 12, 1889, when an ordinance "for the appointment and...