The Wilmington Police Department Ambulance Service operated from 1934 until 1956. Obtaining an ambulance was initially the endeavor of Chief Harry Ainsworth and several concerned…
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Chief Joseph Desmond is pleased to announce that the Wilmington Police Department is hosting a Citizen Police Academy on Monday evenings during the months of…
The 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring and the later film adaptation by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, played out in…
In carrying on over a century of tradition, the department’s first true Honor Guard was finally formed in late 1987. Under the command of Sergeant…
Chief Joseph Desmond is pleased to announce that Town Manager Jeff Hull has appointed Michael Wandell to the position of Sergeant with the Wilmington Police…
Ahead of the parade marshal, the distinguished gentlemen of the town and the school children in decorated wagons, marched Wilmington’s Finest. On Saturday May 29,…
For Immediate Release January 19, 2022 Contact: Samantha Reif 978-658-5071 sreif@wpd.org Wilmington, MA – Chief Joseph Desmond is excited to announce the newest addition to…
On November 11, 2021, at the end of the eleventh hour, Wilmington’s Veterans Day exercises came to a close. Led by the moan and skirl…
In case of emergency call 9-1-1. That statement seems simple enough in today’s technology driven society, the touch of three buttons and help is on…
On page six of the Boston Evening Globe of January 26, 1917, there appeared the five-line death notice of A. Porter Pearson of North Wilmington.…