KCPD Memorial Lest We Forget
KCPD History
KCPD Chiefs of Police
Thomas M. Speers
04/15/1874 | 05/04/1895
Lamblin E. Irwin
05/04/1895 | 11/27/1896
Henry S. Julian
12/16/1896 | 04/07/1897
Thomas N. Vallins
04/07/1897 | 08/27/1897
John Hayes
08/27/1897 | 07/31/1907
Daniel Ahern
(Acting Chief)
07/31/1907 | 08/09/1907
Daniel Ahern
(Chief)
08/09/1907 | 04/17/1909
Frank F. Snow
04/07/1909 | 07/08/1910
Wentworth E. Griffin
07/09/1910 | 06/23/1913
Hiram W. Hammil
06/16/1913 | 06/06/1917
Thomas P. Flahive
05/04/1917 | 06/26/1918
Larry A. Ghent
(Acting Chief)
06/26/1918 | 09/16/1918
Scott Godley
09/16/1918 | 01/28/1921
Charles Edwards
01/28/1921 | 08/15/1922
Frank H. Anderson
(Acting Chief)
08/16/1922 | 01/12/1923
Chester A. Vassar
01/12/1923 | 12/31/1923
Paul V. Woolley
01/01/1924 | 04/14/1924
William A. Shreeve
04/15/1924 | 05/15/1928
Lincoln R. Toyne
05/15/1928 | 03/14/1929
John Miles
03/15/1929 | 04/24/1930
Lewis M. Siegfried
04/24/1930 | 04/01/1932
Robert E. Phelan
04/01/1932 | 10/01/1933
Eugene C. Reppert
(Director of Police)
3/28/1932 | 04/02/1934
Robert J. Coffey
04/02/1934 | 07/11/1939
Otto P. Higgins
(Director of Police)
04/10/1934 | 04/15/1939
William M. Boyle
(Director of Police)
04/15/1939 | 07/11/1939
Lear B Reed
07/11/1939 | 09/30/1941
Harold Anderson
10/01/1941 | 06/23/1943
Richard R. Foster
06/23/1943 | 11/01/1945
Harold Anderson (Second term)
11/01/1945 | 02/19/1947
Henry W. Johnson
02/19/1947 | 06/27/1952
Frank B. Collins (Acting Superintendant)
06/27/1952 - 07/10/1952
Bernard C. Brannon
07/10/1952 | 04/19/1961
Edmund I. Hockaday (Acting Chief)
(Asst. Supt, MO Highway Patrol)
04/19/1961 | 08/28/1961
Clarence M. Kelley
08/28/1961 | 07/09/1973
James R. Newman (Acting Chief)
07/10/1973 | 10/31/1973
Joseph D. McNamara
11/01/1973 | 10/04/1976
Marvin L. Van Kirk (Acting Chief)
10/04/1976 | 01/01/1977
Marvin L. Van Kirk (Chief)
01/01/1977 | 02/07/1978
Norman A. Caron (Acting Chief)
02/07/1978 | 12/31/1978
Norman A. Caron (Chief)
12/31/1978 | 03/30/1984
Larry J. Joiner
03/31/1984 | 06/15/1990
Stephen C. Bishop
06/15/1990 | 12/29/1995
Floyd Bartch (Acting Chief)
12/29/1995 | 03/20/1996
Floyd Bartch (Chief)
03/20/1996 | 04/02/1999
Richard D. Easley
04/02/1999 | 09/09/2004
Rachel Whipple (Interim Chief)
09/09/2004 | 10/26/2004
James Corwin
10/26/2004 | 09/16/2011
Cheryl Rose (Interim Chief)
09/19/2011 | 10/19/2011
Darryl Forté
10/19/2011 | 05/20/2017
David B. Zimmerman (Interim Chief)
05/23/2017 | 08/14/2017
Richard C. Smith
08/15/2017 | 04/22/2022
Joseph Mabin (Interim Chief)
04/22/2022 | 12/15/2022
Stacey Graves
12/15/2022 | Present
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