Daniel J. Oates (born 1954 or 1955) was the Chief of Police and Safety Services Administrator for the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Oates was appointed Chief of Police on August 20, 2001 after serving 21 years in the New York Police Department. In August 2002, Oates became Ann Arbor's first Safety Services Administrator. He is a charter member of the federal Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council.
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Chief Oates served for 21 years in the New York Police Department. He finished his NYPD career as a Deputy Chief and the Executive Officer and second-in-command of the Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, where he supervised 3,000 patrol officers and 700 civilians and was responsible for all patrol services for 1.4 million residents in the city’s largest borough. Between 1997 and 2001, Chief Oates served as the Commanding Officer of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division, where he served under William J. Bratton. He was a member of the Police Commissioner’s Executive Staff and served as his principal advisor on citywide security and intelligence matters. Chief Oates’ prior NYPD assignments also included serving as the chief counsel and Commanding Officer of the Legal Bureau, the 85-attorney law office of the NYPD.
Chief Oates then served for four years as Chief of Police and Safety Services Administrator for the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was responsible for all police, fire and emergency management services for a city of 114,000 that included the University of Michigan.
On November 28, 2005, Oates was appointed as the tenth Chief of Police for the city of Aurora, Colorado. At that time, the Aurora Police Department had 642 police officers and 778 total employees and an operating budget of $80 million, and provided police services to a diverse city of 313,000 residents and 160 square miles (410 km2).
Chief Oates also serves on the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, the national advisory council of police chiefs, created in May, 2004 to advise the U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security on intelligence and security strategies in a post-9/11 world. As of 2005, he is the First Vice President of the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police and Chair of the CACP’s Legislative Committee. He is also a member of numerous other professional associations, including the Police Executive Research Forum and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Oates is a 1977 graduate of Bucknell University with a B.A. degree in English. He was graduated from New York Law School in 1986 and is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. He also holds a Masters of Science Degree in Management from New York University.
Oates is married and has two children.