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Welcome to the New Location of the Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit!

WHO:  Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, Supt. in Chief Daniel Linskey, Deputy Superintendent Thomas Lee (Commander of the Special Operations Division – oversees the Harbor Patrol Unit), department clergy, Boston Police Command staff and BPD members and members assigned to the Harbor Patrol Unit and BPD families.

WHEN:   Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit located at  9 Terminal Street, South Boston (adjacent to the Summer Street Bridge)

WHAT:   Mayor Menino and Police Commissioner Davis welcome the Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit to its new location.

DID YOU KNOW:   

  • When the Harbor Unit was first created they were housed in a 10×10 facility in Charlestown above a snack shack
  • The Unit moved to a location owned by EDIC located at 35 Drydock Ave  where they remained there for about 15 years and shared the dock with lobster boats
  • This new location is their 1st real home that belongs to the Department  (location consists of a modular home plus new piers)