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Rhode Island Minority Police Association
Post Office Box 41198
Providence, RI 02904
T: 401-413-8514
E: info@rimpa.com
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Our History
The Rhode Island Minority Police
Association was founded in 1980 by seven minority law enforcement
officers from various agencies around the State who joined in an
effort to promote fraternalism and solidarity among the members of
the minority law enforcement community. Their goal was to provide a
focal point for members of the minority communities throughout the
State of Rhode Island to bring their questions, concerns and
complaints regarding issues of police activity, the justice system
in general, and minority law enforcement officers, specifically.
To Arthur K. Sweeney, Major Cornell Young Sr., Bernard J. Johnson, Herbert
Tilson, Richard G. Snead, Milton Young, James Ray, and Joe Almeida: we
owe our beginnings and current status as a pivotal force in the Rhode
Island Law Enforcement Community. As mentors, you have provided us with
strong advise and counsel; as friends, you have constantly been there
when you were needed. For these things, and many more, we thank you.
Today, our organization is still dedicated to the task of
improving the individual proficiency of its' members in the
performance of their activities among law enforcement officers;
encouraging legislative, social, charitable and educational
activities and change for and amongst minority law enforcement; and
to increase the efficiency of the law enforcement profession and
thus more firmly establish the confidence of the public in the
service.
While, certainly, the bulk of our membership
heralds from the largest agency in the state, the Providence Police
Department, our membership has come from as diverse agencies as the
Newport Police Department, the Adult Correctional Institute, and the
Rhode Island College Campus Police.
During the 1996 RIMPA Ball and Awards Dinner, Asst. U.S. Atty.
Richard Rose made an outstanding, dynamic and truly awe-inspiring
presentation regarding the "History of
Minority Law Enforcement in Rhode Island". It provides a
compilation of the genesis of the minority law enforcement community in Rhode
Island, from its beginnings in 1947 with the appointment of Alfred
S. Lima, Sr. as the first African American to serve in a sworn
position in any police department in this state, to the promotion of
the first African American female to the rank of Sergeant in the
Providence Police Department.
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