Acknowledgements

In order to keep a project like this running, you need support and assistance.
I would like to express my gratitude to the following people for their valuable contributions and assistance in developing this Buffalo, NY Police Department, Then and Now web page.

Joseph Nigrelli, Detective Sergeant, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Lois M. Harmon, Detective Sergeant, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Thomas Balk, Police Photographer, (Retired) Buffalo Police Photographic Unit, Buffalo Police Department

Philip J. Francis, Police Inspector (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Claudia Childs, Captain, (Retired) E-District, Buffalo Police Department

Albert Hauser, Police Photographer, (Retired) Photographic Unit, 

Buffalo Police Department, Fourth generation Buffalo Police Officer

Leo W. Malecki, Detective (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Betty Young, Buffalo Police Credit Union

John Rieman, Lieutenant, A-District, URT Member, Buffalo Police Department

Richard Doyle, Lieutenant, MRU, URT Member, Buffalo Police Department

Thomas Neill, Police Officer (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Sharon Welsh, Public Safety Dispatcher, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Jean Olden Hosken

Deborah Kufel, Public Safety Dispatcher, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

James E. Hunter, Detective Sergeant, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Cindy Diem, Police Officer, (Retired) D-District, Buffalo Police Department

Charles Beilein, Police Officer, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Linda Beilein

Karen McKee

Thomas Tully, Police Officer (Retired) K-9 Unit, Buffalo Police Department

Brendan Kiefer, Police Officer, C-District, Buffalo Police Department

Carol Lyman Nelson

Michael Sullivan

Henry Smardz , Detective Sergeant, (Retired) Evidence Unit, Buffalo Police Department

Daniel E. Redmond, Police Inspector (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Martin Sentiff, Police Officer (Retired) E-District , Buffalo Police Department

John DiLiberto, Detective Sergeant, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department, - Private Investigator, Liberty Private Investigations, Inc.

Joseph J. Luciano, Police Officer, (Retired) Firearms Unit, Buffalo Police Department

Albert Damiani, Captain, (Retired) D-District, Buffalo Police Department

James A. Weiser, Detective, (Retired) General Investigations Unit, Buffalo Police Department, Third generation Buffalo Police Officer

Mark Hannon

Diane (Metzen) Sheppard

Colleen (McQueen) Babcock

Albert Kurek, Trooper, New York State Police, (Retired), Secretary for the Association of Former New York State Troopers, Inc.

William J. Rieman, Police Officer, B-District, Buffalo Police Department

Daniel P. Redmond, Detective, Buffalo Police Department

Douglas Kopp, Lieutenant, D-District, Buffalo Police Department

Mark R. Stambach, Detective, (Retired) Homicide Squad, Buffalo Police Department

Robert J. Andrycha, Radio Supervisor, Buffalo Fire Department Communications

Ronald F. Coyle, Detective Sergeant, (Retired) TPU and Narcotics Squad, Buffalo Police Department, Ron is third generation Buffalo Police Officer

Joseph W. Walters, Police Officer, C-District, Buffalo Police Department

Michael F. Gaspar, Police Inspector, Buffalo Police Department

Gregg O'Shei

Charles P. Rizzo, Captain, Tonawanda Police Department

Rocco J. Diina, Commissioner of Police, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Crystalea Burns-Pelletier, First Deputy Commissioner, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

T.J. Pignataro, News Reporter, Buffalo News

David Michael Tout, Police Officer (Retired) Motorcycle Unit, Buffalo Police Department

Harvey Frankel, Detective Sergeant, D-District - S.W.A.T. Member, Buffalo Police Department

Bernice Hauth, Office Secretary, Buffalo Police Benevolent Association

Paul Sobkowiak, Police Officer, C-District , Buffalo Police Department

Dick Courtney, Police Officer (Retired), Pct 15, Buffalo Police Department

Bill Conwall, Assistant Chief of Detectives (Retired), Buffalo Police Department

Jim Carroll

John Fecio, Crime Scene Technician, Buffalo Police Department

Gregg G. Blosat, Captain, D-District, Buffalo Police Department

Patrick C. Murphy, Detective Sergeant, Evidence Unit, (Retired) Buffalo Police Department

Dennis Carey, Buffalo Police Garage, 422

Andrew Nostrant, Crime Scene Technician, Buffalo Police Department

Brian D. Marren, Captain (Retired), C-District, Buffalo Police Department

Robert Marth, Public Safety Dispatcher, Buffalo Police Department

Lynne Brown, Great Granddaughter of BPD Policeman Jeremiah Joseph Condon

Marilyn Morgan-Mackel, Daughter of Police Officer Frederic H. Morgan, MCU

Denise Crawford, Detective, (Retired) Homicide Squad, Buffalo Police Department

Philip Ramunno, Police Inspector, Buffalo Police Department

Mike Miller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patrolman Jeremiah (Jerry) Eberhardt

I would also like to acknowledge Patrolman Jeremiah (Jerry) Eberhardt.

Patrolman Jerry Eberhardt was appointed to the Buffalo Police Department May 1, 1929 and spent most of his thirty-seven year carrier assigned to the Accident Investigation Division. 

Jerry maintained throughout his carrier many extremely detailed scrapbooks preserving pictures,  newspaper clippings and mementos relative to the Buffalo Police Department. I was very fortunate to have had access to the many fascinating and informative journals and have posted much of the articles on this web page.

Patrolman Jerry Eberhardt retired from the Department on July 31, 1965and passed away  four years later on September 28, 1969 at the age of seventy-one

My sincere thanks,