An Inquirer reader asked us what the logic is behind how Philly’s police districts are numbered. “And what’s up with the airport as the 77th police district,” the reader wanted to know. Here’s what we found out ⤵️
The department seems to randomly omit numbers and mysteriously lists PHL as the 77th District.Tyger Williams / Staff Photographer / Tyger Williams / Staff PhotograpNormally, lists and maps are designed to tame chaos and put the world in order. Not so with police districts in Philadelphia. Looking up the 21 districtsmay only confuse you. South Philly, for example, encompasses Districts 1, 3, and 17, whereas the central part of the city is divided into 6, 9, and 22.
Roughly a century later, after a 1948 public investigation shed light on corruption in PPD’s detective and vice bureaus, Philly’s police districts were reorganized. To detach the force from political influence, Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons “consolidated the police districts and redrew their boundaries to separate them from ward lines,” the department said in a statement.normally don’t switch unless they get transferred.
For the PPD, district numbers are key to their everyday policing: “All of the patrol districts generate district control numbers for assignments, incidents, and other type of service provided by the police.” They’re equivalent to any kind of serial number, allowing police to track incidentsNew York, police districts are called precincts. The difference in name again roots in Philadelphia’s Act of Consolidation, which established districts, not precincts.
While the Act of Consolidation has been the foundation for any police district math so far, it has nothing to do with the airport’s number. The fact that PHL comes in as the 77th District derives from the policeis designed to keep track of police department personnel, show how long each employee worked, and
organize absences. In the report, every district, unit, and some of the divisions has a four-digit numerical code, the PPD said. Actually, the airport’s daily attendance report code is 7700, but to keep things simple, it’s abbreviated to 77.
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