Caprock Chronicles: Lubbock Police Department centennial
Monte Monroe
Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Monte Monroe, Ph.D. He is an archivist at the Southwest/Special Collection Library on the campus of Texas Tech University.
On May 11, 2021, the mayor and city council officially recognized the Lubbock Police Department for 100 years of service, hosting a public exhibit in the lobby of Citizens Tower and by proclamation.
The LPD’s growth followed patterns of cities elsewhere during nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sheriffs, night watchmen, and city marshals addressed law enforcement during the early years, as well as after Lubbock’s incorporation in 1909. City marshal’s duties ranged from maintaining peace and preventing accidents between automobiles and horses.
Editor s Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker a retired librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This week’s Caprock Chronicles is written by John McCullough, author and aviation historian of Lubbock, who holds a master’s degree in history from Texas Tech.
Horace Anglin is a retired fire chief with the Lubbock Fire Department.
In 1970, he worked at Fire Station 10, which was at 48th Street and Quirt Ave (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd).
He was the captain of that station and was in the first crew that moved there when it opened.
Two lieutenants posted there were in charge of both shifts of men.