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Member of the Executive Staff in charge of a specific duty. Troop Commander of a Patrol Troop, or Commander of a specialized unit. Assistant Troop Commander, oversees the Troop's criminal or traffic activities or oversees a specialized unit. Road supervisor for Troopers, or Supervisor of a specialty unit.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local and county ...
San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
In 2024, an SFPD officer's starting salary is $103,116, rising to $147,628 after seven years of service. [40] Overtime and additional pay often significantly increases these earnings - in 2023, the average starting officer made $170,290 in total pay, and the average level 3 officer made $240,017 in total pay. [41]
The General Schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions. As of September 2004, 71 percent of federal civilian employees were paid under the GS.
The agency that establishes standards for police officer selection, training, licensure, certification, and suspension/decertification is called the police officer standards and training (POST) commission in 15 states (as of 2004), [1] including California, [6] Arizona, [7] and Nevada. [8] In other states, the certification body goes by a ...
Law enforcement operates primarily through governmental police agencies. There are 17,985 police agencies in the United States which include local police departments, county sheriff's offices, state troopers, and federal law enforcement agencies.
The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States. It has over 590 officers and professional staff, covering an area of 151.2 square miles (392 km 2) serving an urban population of more than 400,000. The current chief of the department, since ...