LANSING POLICE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL WEB SITE
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LANSING POLICE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL WEB SITE
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CHIEF SEYMOUR RETIRES After 46 years in law enforcement, 20 as Lansing’s police chief, Alfred Seymour retired effective January 1, 1938, at the age of 71. He also retired his Mervin-Hulbert five shot revolver he had carried during his entire career. In 1932, the same year he was elected president of the IACP, he threatened to put all patrolmen back to walking beats because of the deplorable condition of the patrol cars. However, by the end of that year, LPD officers were driving six new REO sedans that were made in Lansing. Seymour, highly respected, had many accomplishments to his credit. Captain John F. O’Brien succeeded Seymour as Lansing’s sixth Chief of Police. Appointed to LPD in 1917, O’Brien held various jobs as a patrolman and in the detective bureau.
Lansing Police Officers 1938
LPD Traffic officers Top row: Orlo Mead, Okey Peterson, Harry Snider, Waldo Pletcher, Jack Keller, Dan Snetiker from NUTI. Bottom row: Ward Rainwater, Chief Jack O'Brien, Charles Stragier, Herb McCourt, Oris Montgomery, Raymond Benedict.
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