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If this article listed its sources, it would be an excellent addition to Wikipedia:Good articles. -- llywrch 16:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

For the parts of the article I wrote, I mainly combbled together information from the Mass. State Police website, knowledge from friends in Massachusetts who're familiar with the State Police, and a smattering of articles from the Boston Globe tracking controversies regarding the diversity of the MSP. It'd be kickass if this was listed as a "good article", though to be honest it would be a big pain to have to track down articles on the Globe since most of them get archived for a fee Sol. v. Oranje 02:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

If you're worried about paying to access Globe articles, if you have a Massachusetts library card, you can go to http://mblc.state.ma.us/books/magazine/newspapers.php and search the Boston Globe archives for free

Contents 1 additional information about vehicles 2 CPAC Units 3 Confusion on names 4 Images in Pop Culture Section 5 Sourcing 6 Refining the Town Names in the Troops Section

[edit] additional information about vehicles

Just to add to info:

The MSP has Ford Tauruses used for agressive driver enforcement. They are unmarked-patrol with many lights. The Taurus are not just for ranking officers and detectives.

Ford Fusions, Ford Explorers and Ford Focuses are also used for ranking officers and detectives. (The Explorers are also used in the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit -- targetings mostly Tractor-Trailers.)

There are also many other vehicles which I will not list. Good article, good information.

[edit] CPAC Units

This article should say something about the troopers assigned to the various District Attorney's offices. Working together with officers assigned from other departments, these units are a very important part of the investigative effort for homicides and other serious crimes. --Conant Webb 01:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion on names

I find this article rather confusing in the way it designates its subject. In places it talks about the Massachusetts State Police and in others just State Police, which is fine as a shorter form given the context of the article.

But then it starts talking about the Department of State Police without really explaining what is meant. Are we talking about a different police organisation (perhaps the internal police of the Massachusetts Department of State), a department of the Massachusetts state government responsible for managing/funding the MSP, a part of the MSP, a different name for the same thing, or what. To make it even more confusing, we then get the Division of State Police!. Can somebody copy edit the article to explain. Thanks. -- Chris j wood 14:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images in Pop Culture Section

Before you go reinserting the pictures,consider WP:FAIRUSE#Policy_2 "As few non-free content uses as possible are included in each article and in Wikipedia as a whole". So before you go re-adding them consider this. SashaCall 06:41, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sourcing

Remember that everything in Wikipedia has to be sourced from reliable published sources per WP:V. Personal knowledge, however authentic, is not acceptable. Gordonofcartoon 21:15, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Refining the Town Names in the Troops Section

If anyone can refine the links to the towns with the barracks list it would be awesome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbta108 (talk • contribs) 03:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)