Palm Beach, Florida Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Police=== The town has its own police department, established on October 17, 1922. Prior to then, town marshal Joseph Borman served in the capacity of chief law enforcer as outlined in the 1911 charter.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.townofpalmbeach.com/299/Historyof-thePolice-Department|title=History of the Police Department|publisher=Town of Palm Beach|access-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref> The department employed 61 [[Police officer|officers]] in 2018. With a population of 8,295 people in 2018 according to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, this translated to 7.35 officers per 1,000 people, compared to the Florida average of 2.49 officers per 1,000 people. In the same year, the department made 2,039 arrests – equal to about 24,581 arrests per 100,000 people, the highest arrest rate in Florida and over sevenfold the state average. However, many arrests were in relation to non-violent crimes, such as those involving auto theft, criminal traffic citations, fraud, and scams. The police department reported no rapes or homicides in Palm Beach in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20190819/palm-beach-police-dept-has-highest-arrest-rate-in-florida-but-what-does-that-actually-mean|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309195435/https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20190819/palm-beach-police-dept-has-highest-arrest-rate-in-florida-but-what-does-that-actually-mean|archive-date=March 9, 2021|title=Palm Beach Police Dept. has the highest arrest rate in Florida, but what does that actually mean?|date=August 19, 2019|first=Wendy|last=Rhodes|newspaper=Palm Beach Daily News|access-date=April 23, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page