Thanks Food. Beside all the funny remarks, the Mets were well used as backups to alot of cities and towns since they way they were set up. They were set up as an urban department. With district stations with so many assigned cars, motorcycles,detective,wagons,K-9's. And they would patrol their concerns within their districts. And some towns,cities did benefit from the MDC Police as having extra units patroling their cities and towns as they were patroling their concerns.
Now the MBTA has assumed that role to a point, they are called into areas at times to assist in major incidents along with the Mass State Police of course.
The Mass Capitol Police of course took care of the State house, all those state buildings and the old Registry buildng. And they had some funny powers along with that since they protected the legislation and Senate, so it was nice to have friends

I worked for a small state agency then as a Police officer and Governor VOLPE's Brother or cousin was a MCP officer and had the Beacon Street beat from Beacon and Charles to Beacon and park street's and he was the spitting image of the Governor and he use to get some looks as he was roaming around in uniform (nice guy too)
And of course the Registry POlice, feared by every 16 YO with a new license in the those days
