The Billings Police Department is a police department in Billings, Montana, the main law enforcement service in Billings, Montana. It is the largest city police force in Montana with about 142 sworn officers/80 civilian employees covering 41 square miles (110 km2) and a population of about 105,000. The city is divided into nine beats and patrolled by 75 officers.
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“About the only difference between the poor and the ritch, is this, the poor suffer mizery, while the ritch hav tu enjoy it.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
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—Robert D. Andrews. Nick Grindé. Police detective, Before I Hang, describing his meeting with Dr. Garth (1940)
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—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)