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HISTORY


The SFPD began operations on August 13, 1849 during the gold rush and under command of Captain Malachi Fallon. Chief Fallon had a force of one deputy captain, three sergeants and thirty officers.

It was not until 1898 , a re-organization of the force was a modern police service created and responsible to the city.

A list of commanding officers of the SFPD:


City Marshalls - 1850-1856

  • Malachi Fallon

  • Brandt Sequine

  • John W. McKenzie



Chief of Police

  • 1856-58 James F. Curtis

  • 1858-66 Martin J. Burke

  • 1866-73 Patrick Crowley

  • 1873-75 Theodore G. Cockrill

  • 1875-77 Henry H. Ellis

  • 1877-79 John Kirpatrick

  • 1879-97 Patrick Crowley

  • 1897-1900 Isaiah W. Lees

  • 1900-01 William P. Sullivan

  • 1901-05 George Wittman

  • 1905-07 Jeremiah F. Dinan

  • 1907-08 William J.Biggy

  • 1908-10 Jesse B. Cook

  • 1910 John B. Martin

  • 1910-11 John Seymour

  • 1911-20 David A. White

  • 1920-28 Daniel J. O'Brien

  • 1929-40 William J. Quinn

  • 1940-47 Charles W. Dullea

  • 1947 Michael Riordan

  • 1948-50 Michael Mitchell

  • 1951-55 Michael Gaffey

  • 1955-56 George Healy

  • 1956-58 Frances J. Ahern

  • 1958-70 Thomas J. Cahill

  • 1970-71 Alfred J. Nelder

  • 1971-75 Donald M. Scott

  • 1975-80 Charles Gain

  • 1980-86 Corneilius P. Murphy

  • 1986-90 Frank M. Jordan

  • 1990-92 Willis Casey

  • 1992 Richard D. Hongisto

  • 1992-1996 Anthony D. Ribera

  • 1996-2002 Fred H. Lau

  • 2002-2003 Prentice E. Sanders

  • 2003-2004 Alex Fagan

  • 2004- Heather Fong



In 1997, the San Francisco Airport Police merged with SFPD, becoming the SFPD Airport Bureau. Unlike SFPD, Los Angeles still has separate departments: LAPD and Los Angeles Airport Police.

Currently, SFPD has over 2000 sworn members and are among the best trained officers in the United States


OPERATIONS


The head of the SFPD is the Chief of Police. The current Chief is Heather Fong . Chief Fong works with four Deputy Chiefs (Field Operations, Investigations, Airport, and Administration), two field commanders and an airport commander.

Overall operations is split between two divisions, Metro and '''Golden Gate'''. Each division has 5 stations under command for a total of 10 overall.


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