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Vollmer, August
3/7/1876–11/4/1955
AMERICAN
POLICE CHIEF
August Vollmer was a pioneer in the science of forensic investigations. The founder of "professional policing," he was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 7, 1876.
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Vollmer held a variety of jobs in his early years, including firefighting, a coal and feed business, a private in the military, and a mail carrier. In 1905, he became the town marshal of Berkeley, California, and by 1909 he was made the chief of police for Berkeley.
In the wake of years of police corruption and brutality throughout the United States, Vollmer sought to increase the professionalism of police.
During his tenure as police chief, Vollmer began to revamp the Berkeley Police Department by making changes that would transform policing across the nation. Vollmer instituted police training , advocated using college-educated officers, and promoted the use of new technology for fighting crime such as fingerprinting, polygraph machines, and crim
