The regionalization of the Bedford, Dartmouth, Halifax and Halifax County areas brought three municipal police departments with distinct histories together to form Halifax Regional Police. The area has been policed from 1749. The Halifax Police Department was formally established on October 28, 1864, while Dartmouth was incorporated in 1873, with their police department being established a year later. Bedford didn't have its own town police until 1981.

Halifax Regional Police

Frank A. Beazley

May 2003 - Present

David P. McKinnon
Jul. 1998 - May 2003

Vincent J. MacDonald
Jan. 1995 - Jul. 1998

Halifax Police

Dartmouth Police

Bedford Police

Donald A. Boudreau
Oct. 1995 - Mar. 1996

Don MacRae
1993 - 1996

Gregory Murray

1995 - 1996

Vincent J. MacDonald
Dec. 1990 - Sept. 1995

Keith Cole
1991 - 1993

Howard (Gus) MacKenzie
1981 - 1995

Arthur D. Wyatt
Sept. 1990 - Dec. 1990

Don Trider
1981 - 1991

Blair D. Jackson
Nov. 1984 - Sept. 1990

Roger Smith
1968 - 1981

Fitzgerald F. Fry
Sept. 1978 - Nov. 1984

John Edge
1956 - 1968

George O. Robinson
Dec. 1968 - Sept. 1978

John Lawlor
1938 - 1956

Verdun W. Mitchell
Jan. 1950 - Oct. 1968

George C. Fox
Sept. 1945 - Jan. 1950

Judson J. Conrad
Feb. 1933 - Sept. 1945

William E. Palmer
Apr. 1924 - Feb. 1933

Francis Hanrahan
Apr. 1918 - Apr. 1924

William S. Bayers
Mar. 1916 - Jun. 1917

John A. Rudland
Nov. 1907 - Mar. 1916

Nicholas Power
May 1906 - Nov. 1907

John O'Sullivan
May 1893 -May 1906

Garrett Cotter
Oct. 1864 - May 1893