Police and ambulance in the same file: the succession the record lost, the service the territory built

ITEM 5 · THE LOSS PRINTED, NOT FILLED; BOTH DEPARTMENTS AS THEY STAND, DATED

The branch closes by joining the two uniforms: the police course, whose early succession the record has lost and says so, and the ambulance course, which runs from no service at all to an EMS division carrying most of the territory's calls — both departments then printed as they stand. Police: Crime & Public Safety states the position with a plainness this section adopts rather than improves: the town's constables and marshals — the night watch, the marshal with his other trades, the succession of men who kept the town's order before the uniformed department — are "lost to the record," the shortfall "stated here rather than filled." This run's searches (directories, county histories, the State's schedules of officials at the strength reached) recovered no marshal's name for the succession, and the loss stands printed as the finding; the settler remains the town minute books and the State schedules, where a marshal was paid and therefore named.Ambulance: the town's ambulance course is the territory's — before 2010 no town ambulance service stands in any record reached (the county's funeral-home and hospital ambulance era served this ground from the sister towns, at boundary size), and from July 1, 2010 the fire territory runs the service as its EMS side: some 550 EMS calls a year against 150 fire calls, the ambulance now the department's main business, its billing kept in the clerk-treasurer's office. The police-wagon stage of the national pattern never stood here to succeed; the course runs from nothing, through the neighbors' ambulances, to a fire-territory EMS — printed at that true size. Both departments as they stand, November 2026: police — Chief Schalliol's department at 301 Michigan Street; fire and EMS — the Walkerton Lincoln Fire Protection Territory at 504 Washington Street, its chief's seat carrying GAP-WKGOV-5's directory-strength caution. The branch's public-safety record closes there: one succession lost and printed as lost, one built and dated, and a fallen roll with no names on it.

Principal sources: Crime & Public Safety (the marshal loss, stated whole; the police fallen test); Government (the present departments, the territory's call volumes, ambulance billing; GAP-WKGOV-5); this run's directory and schedule searches, November 2026.