Buffalo Police
The Buffalo Police Department is the second-largest city police force in the state of New York. In 2012, it had over nine hundred employees, including over seven hundred police officers.
The Buffalo Police Commissioner is Byron C. Lockwood after Commissioner Daniel Derenda retired to the private sector. The deputy commissioner is Joseph Gramgalia.
The City of Buffalo Police Department was established in 1871, taking over for the previous Niagara Frontier Police District that oversaw not only Buffalo, but also Tonawanda and Wheatfield.
Fifty-one Buffalo police officers have died in the line of duty. The first of these was George Dill who was shot and killed in 1865.
The BPD appointed its first female police officer prior to World War I.
The department hired George C. Sarsnett, its first Black policeman in 1919. He served the city for nineteen years dying of natural causes in 1937. The second Black policeman, hired that same year was Oliver M. Bragg. He was promoted to detective and stayed with the police until his retirement in 1946.
In 1930 the department changed the design of its badges. Press reports at the time indicated that Mayor Frank X. Schwab had distributed official badges to his friends causing confusion.
Press reports in 2019 indicated the Department had an unwritten policy since at least 1968 to not arrest Catholic priests. Although retired officers said they had never released a priest who had had sexual contact with a child, those detained for public masturbation or sexual activity with an adult were released after a phone call to the local diocese. The clergy of other faiths were not offered the same policy.
In 2018, the BPD, along with the Buffalo Fire Department, moved into a new joint headquarters building in the former Michael J. Dillon Federal Courthouse.
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