Seattle Police Department

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The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, except for the campus of the University of Washington, which responsibility falls to the University of Washington Police Department. It is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.

The Seattle Police Department has various specialty units including SWAT, bike patrol, harbor patrol, motorcycles, mounted patrols.

Law enforcement in Seattle began with the appointment of William H. ("Uncle Joe") Surber as town marshal in 1861. The SPD was officially organized on June 2, 1886. As of 2006 it had 1,280 sworn officers.

[edit] Command Structure

The chief of the Seattle police department is R. Gil Kerlikowske.

Bureau Commanders include:

Deputy Chief John Diaz (Deputy Chief of Administration)
Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer (Deputy Chief of Operations)
Assistant Chief Harry Bailey (Patrol Operations Bureau 2)
Assistant Chief Nick Metz (Patrol Operations Bureau 1)
Assistant Chief Linda Pierce (Criminal Investigations Bureau)
Assistant Chief Jim Pugel (Field Support Bureau)
Assistant Chief Ted Jacoby (Emergency Preparedness Bureau).(Deceased)

[edit] Bike Unit

In 2005 the department started testing the use of BlackBerry PDA's with bike patrol officers. These PDA's allowed officers on the streets access to police records when the use of regular mobile data computer is not available.^{[citation needed]}