Police cars will be changing again in Miami-Dade. See how old ones looked through years
By Miami Herald Archives
Miami-Dade County police cars in the motor pool in 1959.
Bill Kuenzel
Miami Herald File
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Miami’s Dade’s police department is now the sheriff’s office.
That means re-branding of patrol cars and signs.
This isn’t the first name change.
It started out as the Dade County Sheriff’s Office. In 1957, it became the Dade County Public Safety Department in 1957. and then the Metro-Dade Police Department in 1981. When the county changed names to Miami-Dade in 1997, so did the police department.
Before the patrol cars get a makeover to reflect “Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office,” let’s take a look through the Miami Herald photo archives at how they have looked through the years:
Police cars through the years in Miami-Dade
Miami-Dade County police cars in the motor pool in 1959. Bill Kuenzel Miami Herald File
Miami-Dade police cars assemble near Coral Reef Drive in the 1960s. Miami Herald File
Officers at a investigate a 1990 robbery in Miami-Dade County. Raul Rubiera Miami Herald File
A Metro-Dade police car. Miami Herald File
A Miami-Dade police car. Miami Herald File
In 1986, Maj. Douglas Hughes. Here are various portraits of him in his officein front of a Metro Police car. Greg Lovett Miami Herald
Metro Dade Police Officer David Hymes with the new 1992 Chevrolet Caprice take-home police cars. Michael Patterson Miami HeraldFile
-In 2001, Metro police officers get ready to conduct a search for suspects in South Miami-Dade. GASTON DE CARDENAS El Nuevo Herald
In 1996, a police motorcade near the Miami airport witj a hijacking suspect. Nuri Vallbona Miami Herald File
In 2008, police officers take suspects into custody near a police car. Walter Michot Miami Herald File
In 1997, a lone Metro police car in the Mahi Shrine parking lot a couple of blocks from the Metro Justice Building. Tim Chapman Miami Herald Staff
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