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. The BPD appointed its first female police officer prior to World War I, and its first Black patrol officer in 1918.
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.
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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