The badge's style goes back to 1894 when the city had a standard mold made for chief badges, said Long Branch Fire Department's historian Arthur T. Green II. Before that, no two chief badges were ...

A piece of Spokane history has been found in an old, filthy box in a storage room in Salem, Ore. The badge worn by Joel F. Warren, the first chief of police – back when Spokane was Spokane Falls ...