Cape Police Dept. turns 150

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Dec. 31, 1926 Cape Girardeau Police Department Front row from left, Charles Schweer, Curtis Childs, Lee Kizer, W.M. Kelpe. Back row, H.F. Wickham, Rudolph Winkle, Frank Lawrence and Ed Davenport.

Cape Girardeau Police Department 1936 (Southeast Missourian)

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com File photo taken by G.D. Fronabarger A Cape Girardeau police officer directs traffic at the intersection of Broadway and Sprigg in the 1950's.

Cape Girardeau police department demonstration (Southeast Missourian)

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Cape Girardeau Police Jan 8, 1960 From left, Lommis E. Propst, Bill Adams and Walter E. Diebold

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Cape Girardeau police department 1938 Clarence Parreti, Edgar Hirsch, Leo Staley and Fred Schneider

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Cape Girardeau police department bloodhound (Southeast Missourian)

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Aug. 30, 1967 Mayor J. Hugh Logan, left, and Police Chief Beard hang a sign to push school safety.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Jan. 2, 1960 Padlocking old quarters for the first time in about 50 years the old police headquarters building on Frederick was padlocked as the department transferred a block west to the renovated Grace Methodist Church building. As Police Chief Percy R. Little affixes the lock, from the left, are City Commissioners J. Weldon McBride and U.G. Pettigrew, City Attorney Raymond H. Vogel, Max G. Stovall and John L. Wieser and Mayor Walter H. Ford.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com April 3, 1962 Chief Percy R. Little receives national police officer of the month award.

Police station in former Grace Methodist Church (Southeast Missourian)

Cape Girardeau police department pistol range. (Southeast Missourian)

Cape Girardeau Police 1938 (Southeast Missourian)

Lt. Shannon Kelley tapes parking meter slot after city council orders discontinuance of use of meters (Southeast Missourian)

Chief Little accepts narcotics display. (Southeast Missourian)

Cape Girardeau police department (Southeast Missourian)

Old Cape Girardeau police station Oct. 12, 1976 (Southeast Missourian)

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Sept. 7, 1976 Lt. Howard Boyd Jr. raises the flag given to the city that was flown on the state Capitol. Watching Lt. Boyd are Chief Henry H. Gerecke, Rep. Burlison and Reserve Stg. Ed Williams.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com Jan. 22 1978 Patrolman Norval Friese writes the license number of an automobile parked too long at a meter space on Spanish Street.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ~ photos@semissourian.com July 2, 1977 Patrolman A.C. Moore with the Cape Girardeau police department directs traffic on Sprigg Street and Morgan Oak.