[4] Murray was joined by two detectives under his command, Joseph Edwin Rogers in 1884 and William D. Greer in 1887.
[5] Chief Detective Murray died in 1906, and in 1909, the Ontario Provincial Police Force was formally created.
It consisted of 45 constables under the direction of Superintendent Joseph E. Rogers, who began as a detective under Murray in 1884.
Major General Harry Macintyre Cawthra-Elliot was appointed to the newly created position of Commissioner.
[7] In 1922, Joseph E. Rogers was dismissed from the force by Victor Williams, thus ending his tenure as the head of the OPP.