Bridgeport Police Department Bridgeport Police Department The Bridgeport Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is responsible for most law enforcement within the geographical boundary of City of Bridgeport, with the exception of: Bridgeport was the first city in New England to deploy radio patrol police cars, in September 1933. The Bridgeport Park Police Department is a separate department devoted to law enforcement in Bridgeport's parks. In 2012, the maximum annual salary for police officers was $168,374. The department enforces the laws within Connecticut's most populous city. Bridgeport has the 56th largest metro area
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut of deindustrialization and declining population, though it overtook Hartford as the state's most populous city by 1980. Much of the land that became Bridgeport was originally occupied by the Pequonnock Indians of the Paugussett nation. One village consisted of about five or six hundred inhabitants in approximately 150 lodgings. Other than Black Rock and Parts of Brooklawn which were originally part of the township of Fairfield, Bridgeport was originally a part of the township of Stratford. The first English settlement on the west bank of the mouth of the Pequonnock River was made in about 1665 and was called Pequonnock.