Thomas Reddin

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Thomas Reddin (June 25, 1916 – December 4, 2004) was a Los Angeles Police Department chief from 1967 to 1969. He left May 6, 1969, to become a news commentator. He also owned a private security company in Los Angeles; Tom Reddin Security.

Reddin helped modernize the department and introduced the community policing concept,^[1] which "perceives the community as an agent and partner in promoting security rather than as a passive audience."^[2] During his tenure as Chief of the Los Angeles Police, he allowed his name and office to be used in the first three seasons of the revived version of the Jack Webb-created detective drama Dragnet, his name was also used as technical advisor during the first season (1968–1969) of the police drama Adam-12.

References

External links

Thomas Reddin at Find a Grave

Police appointments
Preceded by Thad F. Brown	Chief of LAPD 1967–1969	Succeeded by Roger E. Murdock

v t e Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department

1876–1900	Gerkens Harris King Gard King Cuddy McCarthy Horner J. W. Davis Skinner Darcy Cuddy Loomis Benedict Cooney Burns Glass

1900–1926	Elton Hammell Auble Kern Broadhead Dishman Galloway Sebastian Snively Butler Home Murray Pendegast Jones Everington Oaks Vollmer Heath

1926–1950	J. E. Davis Steckel J. E. Davis Davidson Hohmann Horrall Worton

1950–2002	Parker Brown Reddin Murdock E. M. Davis Rock Gates Williams Lewis Parks

2002–present	Pomeroy Bratton Downing Beck

Persondata
Name	Reddin, Thomas
Alternative names
Short description	American police chief
Date of birth	June 25, 1916
Place of birth
Date of death	December 4, 2004
Place of death

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