For more than a century, the Savannah Police Department and the Chatham County Police Department patrolled the Coastal Empire of Southeast Georgia. Both departments boast a proud heritage of law enforcement. Late in 2001, the officials from both the city and county governments began working on an idea of merging the two departments into one law enforcement entity. Realizing that criminals very seldom pay attention to jurisdictional boundaries, and often criminal cases that one entity was working on were often linked to other cases in adjourning areas, it only made sense to proceed toward a “joined” department. In October 2003, both departments began the merger process, with Chief Dan Flynn selected to lead the newly merged department. Today the “new” department boasts approximately 575 sworn officers and 200 civilians, charged with providing police services to the 225, 000 residents of the Savannah and Chatham County.

With 6 precincts and the expected addition of another, spread out throughout the entire jurisdiction, the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department carries on the long standing tradition of providing professional law enforcement to the citizenry of the Coastal Empire.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Traffic Unit accumulates annual statistics that would easily place itself among agencies of much larger population basis including:

Total number of citations 2005: 60,500
Total number of fatalities 2005: 35
Total number of accidents 2005: 15,000
Total number of DUI’s: 1,300

Traffic Investigation Unit:

Sgt. Anthony Gallo
Cpl. Lamar McCoy
Apo. Terry Shook
Apo. Susan Fandrich

Scpl. Scott Armstrong
Scpl. Steve Rivers
Cpl. Robert Robinson
Cpl. David Johnson
Apo. Bradley Beddow

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