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About
the San Francisco Police Department
In
his inaugural address in August 1849, John Geary, the first elected alcalde (mayor/judge) in Gold Rush San Francisco, reminded
the newly elected council that the town was "without a single policeman…. [or] the means of confining a prisoner for
an hour."
On
August 13 the council selected Malachi Fallon as San Francisco's first Captain (Chief) of Police. Fallon in turn appointed
a deputy captain, three sergeants and 30 officers to comprise the first regular municipal police department in American San
Francisco.
Today,
the San Francisco Police Department is a large metropolitan police department which is organized into four bureaus: Administration,
Field Operations, Investigations and Airport.
The
Administration Bureau provides support for the other bureaus of the San Francisco Police Department and is frequently the
liaison with other city agencies as well as the Board of Supervisors. The Administration
Bureau of the San Francisco Police Department has a number of units and divisions: Behavioral Science Unit, Staff Services
Division, Fiscal Division, Support Services Division, Planning Division, Technology Division, Risk Management, and the Training
and Education Division.
The
Field Operations Bureau contains the Headquarters, fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team, Metro Division, Golden Gate Division,
Homeland Security Unit, Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving and Traffic Company.
The Investigative Bureau is organized into five divisions by crime or specialty: Forensic Services, Property Crimes,
Personal Crimes, Juvenile and Family Services and Narcotics and Vice.
Source:
sfgov.org
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William Delaney is a former military policeman, San Francisco City College
Campus Police Officer, San Francisco Patrolman, and candidate for Sheriff of Adams County in Colorado. A graduate of San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, and attended The University of
Texas at Arlington's Graduate School of Criminal Justice, and Urban Affairs, Chabot College in Hayward, California, The University
of Maryland Overseas Extension, and The University of California Berkeley's San Francisco Extension.
He has held a California Community College Instructors Certificate since 1972,
did extensive undergraduate research in behavior modification, and social learning theory, and has taught at The Community
College of Denver, Arapahoe Community College, AT&T, ARCO Coal Company, The U.S. Army Reserve School, and for Evelyn Wood
Reading Dynamics.
Bill was Outside Advisor to California's Coordinating Council on Higher Education,
The Chancellor's Office for California's Community Colleges, and San Francisco's Education Consortium. He served on Boards of Directors for San Francisco's Southeast Education, Law and Justice Task Force, Local
development Company, and done volunteer work with San Quentin's Squires, Sonoma State Hospital's Center for self-destructive
Children, and San Francisco State University's Child Study Center.
He is the author of three books: How to Avoid being a Chicken Head; Black N Blue; and, his most recent Counterfeit Democracy.
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