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A history of the Moultonborough Police Department.

The History of the Moultonborough Police Department begins in 1924 when George Stimpson, was recorded as the first Police Officer in the Town’s Annual Report.

The Moultonborough Police department’s budget for fiscal year 1925 was ten dollars!

It was a time when crooks could pretty much do as they pleased in between the years of 1930 to 1933. There were no police officer appointments recorded in the Town’s Annual Report for those years.

In the years of 1966/67 Law Enforcement received a boost in the town of Moultonborough, when the New Hampshire State Police moved its barracks in Wolfeboro to Moultonborough.

In 1968 a mile stone in Moultonborough Police Department history is made. Frank McIntire is the first police officer to hold the title and rank of Chief of Police. Prior to this the title of Chief of Police was reserved for and held by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.

In 1971 Martin Clifford was hired as the first full-time police officer/ Chief of Police.

Between 1972 and 2008 the Moultonborough Police Department expands its full time ranks from one officer to 12.

The office of Chief of Police was not made a separate entity in the Town until 1968. In that year the first police officer held the rank and title of Chief. Prior to this year the Chief of Police was that person who held the position of Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The town during these years employed police officers who answered directly to the Board of Selectmen. In 1970 the town hired the first full time Police Officer/ Chief of Police.

MOULTONBOROUGH CHIEFS OF POLICE

Chief Frank Mc Intire

1968 to 1970

Chief Martin Clifford

1970 to 1973

Chief Leonard Smart

1973 to 1979

Chief James E. Woodman

1979 to 1995

Chief Richard M. Young, Jr.

1995 to 1998

Chief Scott Kinmond

1998 to 2009

Chief Thomas Dawson

2009

MOULTONBOROUGH POLICE OFFICERS UP TO 1970

Officer George Stimpson, 1924 to 1930

Officer E.M. Waterhouse, 1927 to 1930

Officer Henry Boyle, 1927 to 1930 and 1934 to 1935

Officer Walter Rollo, 1935

Officer Herbert Martin, 1935

Officer Charles Smith, 1936

Officer Chester Wilder, 1937 to 1964

Officer Harold Tilton, 1941 to 1964

Officer Harry Perkins

Officer Robert Lamprey, 1948 to 1961

Officer Frank Mc Intire, 1959 and 1968 to 1970

Officer Ted Roth, 1959

Officer Ronald Burton, 1970