Anne Kirkpatrick (police officer)

Anne Kirkpatrick (born 1959) is an American law enforcement officer, the former Chief of the Spokane Police Department and the first woman to head the Oakland Police Department.

Anne Kirkpatrick
Chief of the Oakland Police Department
In office
February 27, 2017 – February 21, 2020
Preceded bySabrina Landreth (City Administrator)
Succeeded byDarren Allison (Acting)

Early life and education

Kirkpatrick is from Memphis, Tennessee, where she graduated in 1977 from Hutchison School and earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from the University of Memphis; she later studied at Seattle University School of Law.[1][2]

Career

Kirkpatrick began her career in law enforcement with the Memphis Police Department, and in Washington State was a police officer in Redmond and then a college instructor in criminal justice. She later served as Chief of Police for five years each in Ellensburg, Federal Way, and finally Spokane, from which position she retired in 2012 to become a leadership instructor for the FBI. She was also Chief Deputy of the King County Sheriff's Office for two years.[1][2] In 2016 she was one of three finalists to become Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department; Mayor Rahm Emanuel subsequently appointed her Chief of the department's Bureau of Professional Standards.[2]

Oakland, California, Chief of Police

On January 4, 2017, after six months in Chicago, Kirkpatrick was appointed by Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, as the city's first female Chief of Police.[1][2][3] She was sworn in on February 27, 2017.[4]

On November 6, 2017 the chair of Oakland's privacy advisory commission, Brian Hofer, and seven others filed a complaint with Oakland's Citizens Police Review Board claiming that Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick had made false statements about an August raid in West Oakland.[5]

On February 20, 2020 the Oakland Police Commission voted unanimously to fire Kirkpatrick with Schaaf joining in the decision as required by the law for a police chief to be fired without cause,[6] saying that the commission's trust in Kirkpatrick was "irrevocably broken".[7] Kirkpatrick later revealed that she was terminated in retaliation for not performing special favors for commission members. She filed a Federal whistleblower lawsuit against the city.

References
  1. Pignolet, Jennifer (February 7, 2017). "From MPD officer to Oakland PD chief". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee.
  2. Mettler, Katie (January 5, 2017). "Introducing Anne Kirkpatrick, just hired to fix Oakland's 'frat house' police department". Washington Post. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. Sweeney, Annie (January 4, 2017). "Chicago police official leading reform efforts unexpectedly leaves for Oakland". Chicago Tribune.
  4. Kirschenheuter, Emily; Estacio, Terisa (February 27, 2017). "Kirkpatrick officially sworn in as Oakland's new police chief". KRON 4. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017.
  5. https://www.ktvu.com/news/complaint-accuses-oakland-police-chief-of-making-false-statements-about-ice-operation
  6. Dowd, Katie (February 25, 2020). "Ex-Oakland police chief claims refusal to give 'special treatment' part of reason she was fired". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. "Oakland fires police chief after trust 'irrevocably broken'". San Francisco Chronicle. Bay City News Service. February 20, 2020.
Police appointments
Preceded by
Sabrina Landreth (City Administrator)		 Chief of the Oakland Police Department
2017–		 Succeeded by


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