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About the Omaha Police Department
On February 12, 1857 the City of Omaha was incorporated,
three years after the first village had been laid out. In March of that year
J.A. Miller became the first city marshal for the city of Omaha. Today, the Omaha Police Department is a large metropolitan
police department organized into a Police Services Division, Criminal Investigations Bureau and Uniformed Patrol Bureau.
The Omaha Police Department has an authorized strength of
797 sworn police officers and patrols an area of just over 118 square miles. The
uniformed patrol contingent of the Omaha Police Department operates out of four precincts: Northeast; Southeast; Northwest;
and, Southwest.
Like other urban police departments, the Omaha Police Department
also has specialized units designed to deal with law enforcement and community problems associated with the jurisdiction,
such as: Horse Patrol; Air Support Unit; Canine; Major Crimes Unit; Homicide; Gang Unit; Narcotics; Special Victims Unit;
Neighborhood Services Unit; Traffic Enforcement; Emergency Response Unit/Bomb Unit; and, a Riverfront Patrol.
Source:
opd.ci.omaha.ne.us
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In 1982, Utah Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Robert
C. Wadman was appointed Chief of Police for Omaha Police Department (Nebraska). He
was the first chief of the Omaha Police Department that was appointed from outside the ranks. Robert Wadman served as chief
until 1986. Since 1997, Dr. Robert C. Wadman is a Professor Weber State University
(Ogden, Utah). He teaches criminal justice related courses such as: Introduction
to Criminal Justice; Community Policing; Research Methods in Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Management; Drugs and Crime;
and, Victimology. Dr. Robert C. Wadman is the author of Law enforcement supervision: A case study approach; and the co-author
of Community Policing and Crime Prevention
in America and England and To Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America.
According to the book description of To Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America, “This
readable book provides a comprehensive and detailed survey of the development of police organization, theory, and practice—and
its role in American history. It examines how police have tried to maintain law and order in a democratic society, noting
successes, failures, and continuing problems since the colonial period. Specific chapter topics cover police in Early America;
the development of municipal policing in the Northeast; policing race and violence in the South; policing the American West;
urbanization, progressivism, and police; the shift to police as profession; police and technology; leaders in the field, and
policing to the 21st century. For police academy training programs and police department libraries, as well as law enforcement
agencies and professional organizations.”
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