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The Hollywood Police Department (HPD) is a full-service agency servicing a population of 145,629 in 27 sqmi of the municipality of Hollywood, Florida.

History
The HPD was established on December 8, 1925. Virgil Wright, a Broward County deputy sheriff had been patrolling the unincorporated area that was to become the municipality of Hollywood for the previous five years. The newly-formed city council offered the job of chief of police to Deputy Wright, who accepted. Tiring of the responsibilities in less than two months, Chief Wright resigned from his position as chief of police. The city council appointed four chiefs within a ten-month period thereafter.

Organization
The current chief of police is Chadwick E. Wagner, who replaced James Scarberry amid a scandal concerning an FBI investigation of the department. The department is divided into two bureaus:
 * Bureau of Administration
 * Bureau of Patrol

Campaign against snipe signs
In 2012, the department began to use computer software to call numbers on commercial signs left on roadsides in the city. It reported as much as an eighty percent decrease in these small "snipe signs" in the city limits.

Controversy
Police Chief Rick Stone was brought in to try to reform the troubled and scandal-plagued department in 1996. He filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization) lawsuit on April 13, 2000 against the Broward County Police Benevolent Association and two union bosses, who were also members of the Hollywood Police Department.

In 2007, several Hollywood Police Department officers were implicated in a wide-reaching corruption investigation by the FBI, and a few officers turned state's evidence in order to reduce their potential sentences. Several officers faced trial and one was convicted in August 2007.

In 2009, five Hollywood Police Department officers were accused of trying to cover up a crash involving one of their own officers by lying on police reports. The officer is clearly noted on video to "draw little Disney here.." the report and as saying, "if I have to bend the rules to protect a cop I'm gonna." The audio from the incident was recorded by dashboard camera, and was reportedly full of vulgar language. On 7 January 2010, Police Chief Chad Wagner said the officers concerned may be fired. The officers were by that point in their sixth month of paid leave. On 10 April, 2012, Officer Joel Francisco was sentenced to ninety days in jail after have plead guilty in the incident. One other former Hollywood officer, Dewey Pressley, is appealing a ninety day sentence.

Fallen officers

 * Officer Owen Coleman, January 25, 1926
 * Officer Henry T. Minard, November 18, 1972
 * Officer Byron W. Riley, August 30, 1973
 * Officer Phillip C. Yourman, August 30, 1973
 * Officer Frankie M. Shivers, September 6, 1982
 * Officer Alex Del Rio, November 22, 2008