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The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the City and County of San Francisco, as well as San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County. In 2000, the SFPD was the 11th largest police department in the United States .
May 6, 1946: San Francisco Police and Coast Guard patrol boats circling Alcatraz Island in response to call from Warden James Johnston as rioting breaks out. [42] 1946: The San Francisco Police Officers Association established. 1946: Inspector Jack Manion of the Chinatown Squad retires. 1947: The Nick de John mafia murder of 1947.
Shortly after he left the SFPD, Toschi became Director of Security for St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco's Mission District, [9] and later served the same role for San Francisco's Pan Pacific Hotel. Toschi was vice president of North Star Security Services in Daly City. [10] He was a technical advisor to the producers of the 2007 film Zodiac.
The San Francisco Police Commission subsequently determined that Fong had acted improperly, and that personnel from the 1998 Q-35 inspectors list should have been hired instead of sergeants. [9] Litigation is presently ongoing for the plaintiff officers, 39 in total and many part of the original Civil Service Commission complaint who are now ...
Francis J. Ahern (1899–1958) was the San Francisco Police Chief from January 1956 to September 1958. Appointed by mayor George Christopher's police commission, Ahern, with the rank of patrolman, was elevated to chief over every captain, lieutenant and sergeant on the force. Ahern's rank was deceptive, as he had been passed over for promotion ...
The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) is the largest police union representing the San Francisco Police Department, with around 2,200 members as of 2016. [1] It was founded in 1946 [ 2 ] and by the late 1980s had around 1,750 members, amounting to the majority of San Francisco police officers . [ 3 ]
The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Upper Haight Park substation. [1] Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded in its blast. [2]
San Francisco Police Department: Service years: 1942–1970: Rank: Chief: 1958–1970: Thomas J. Cahill (June 8, 1910 – October 12, 2002) was the chief of police of ...