History

Public Safety was addressed in Greeley in 1871 with the establishment of a police force under the leadership of its first Police Chief, S.B. Wright. We have come a long way from the days of yore.

Past Greeley Chiefs of Police

Listed in the order in which they served, the following is a list of the officially appointed Marshals and Chiefs of Police of Greeley as compiled by Barnard Houtchens in "The Compiled Ordinances of the City of Greeley, 1949" and records of the Greeley Tribune:

Name	Dates Served	Name	Dates Served
S.B. Wright	1871-1873	Eugene Williams	1905-1910
James Kibler	1874	D.F. Camp	1911-1912
B.F. Marsh	1875-1876	M.H. Morgan	1913-1916
R.B. Harrington	1877	W.J. Ahrend	1916-1917
B.F. Pinneo	1878	Ben Florance	1917-1924
Calvin Randolph	1879	A.W. Nusbaum	1925-1926
H.W. Lee	1880	B.F. Bollen	1927-1928
J.H. Senier	1880	Seacil Roberts	1929-1934
J.J. Armstrong	1881	W.H. Boggs	1935-1936
N. Woodward	1882	C.C. Hunter	1937-1959
Louis Dupree	1883	Earl D. Towning	1959-1970
B.F. Pinneo	1884	Carrol H. Long	1970
C.A. Myers	1885	John P. Parkinson	1970-1976
S.G. Fuller	1886-1887	Tom Dority	1976-1977
D.F. Camp	1888	B.J. Edington	1977-1986
Fred Williams	1889	Sam Sasaki	1986
D.F. Camp	1890-1893	Ronald T. Wood	1986-1996
S.G. Fuller	1894-1895	Paul H. Branham	1996-2005
D.F. Camp	1896-1904	Douglas P. Forsman	2005 - 2006
		Jerry Garner	2006 - Present

Retired Police Officers

A recognition of "those who have gone before" includes the following:

NAME	DATES SERVED	RANK
D.F. Camp	1888-1912	Chief
Lavern Claus	1933-1953	Lieutenant
Harold Burger	1937-1957
C. Henry Carlson	1937-1957
Paul Close	1936-1957
Irv Timkin	1937-1957
C.C. Hunter	1937-1959	Chief
Paul Martin	1938-1959
Otto Oster	May 22, 1950 to October 1, 1963	Lieutenant
Guido Lepore	March 22, 1950 to March 22, 1969	Officer
Earl Towning	1943-1970	Chief
Charles Arvas	1951-1973	Sergeant
William Mitchell	January 1, 1962 to April 1973	Officer
Carrol Long	December 1950 to April 30, 1973	Chief
Robert Staggs	December 1950 to June 1973	Sergeant
Leo Malcom	June 1954 to December 1973	Lieutenant
Bart Schlichting	January 1, 1961 to May 1, 1975	Officer
Ray Thomas	December 1950 to December 31, 1975	Officer
Dionicio Soria	January 6, 1957 to July 7, 1977	Officer
Edward Gormley	July 19, 1952 to September 1, 1978	Sergeant
Donald Hughes	June 15, 1955 to June 1, 1979	Sergeant
Wilbur Ross	April 10, 1959 to October 5, 1979	Captain
Lester Davison	June 20, 1955 to June 20, 1980	Officer
Robert Hirsch	March 9, 1961 to November 30, 1981	Lieutenant
Donald O'Leary	January 1, 1967 to August 5, 1982	Sergeant
Ralph Nealy	March 4, 1971 to December 1986	Officer
Wesley Hall	April 1, 1965 to March 1986	Officer
William Riggs	April 1, 1954 to May 31, 1989	Sergeant
E. Doyle Barker	January 1, 1969 to January 31, 1991	Lieutenant
Jim Robinson	June 13, 1973 to January 31, 1991	Sergeant
Ray Niehaus	February 4, 1964 to October 1, 1991	Officer
Theodore Palmisano	June 1, 1974 to November 1, 1994	Sergeant
James Stewart	January 16, 1968 to November 1, 1996	Sergeant
Donald Lutz	January 1, 1962 April 20, 2000	Lieutenant
G. Frank Bishop	September 15, 1977 to April 25, 2001	Officer
Ed Clark	January 9, 1997 to July 11, 2002	Officer
Michael King	August 1, 1978 to July 30, 2003	Officer
John Gates	September 15, 1978 to July 31, 2003	Sergeant
Jeff Housden	May 20, 1993 to September 11, 2003	Officer
Kent Donahue	September 1, 1977 to August 18, 2004	Captain
Dave Volpe	September 1, 1977 to November 12, 2004	Officer
Rusty Mellon	November 7, 1968 to July 7, 2005	Sergeant
Paul Branham	September 4, 1979 to August 15, 2005	Chief
Linda Ghent	May 1, 1986 to January 11, 2006	Officer
Dave Beckmann	April 18, 1980 to July 15, 2006	Sergeant
Criss Clinton	December 16, 1974 to August 31, 2006	Officer
Roger Muller	August 1, 1976 to November 3, 2006	Lieutenant
Ken Vance	June 26, 1974 to January 17, 2007	Sergeant
Gary Wojcieszak	January 4, 1980 to March 15, 2007	Officer
Russell Keller	April 2, 1984 to July 27, 2007	Officer
Pat Foelske	August 1, 1971 to December 12, 2007	Lieutenant
Louis Abuso	May 1, 1986 to April 9, 2008	Officer