Some key events that shaped the department have been selected below. With these events, the department grew and adapted, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much.
In the post-war periods, there was an increase in corruption within the department that anti-corruption teams spent the next decades trying to eradicate, accentuated by the Bloody Easter scandal in 1952 that brought the issue of police brutality to the forefront.Īs one of the largest police departments in the country, the Los Santos Police Department was affected by almost every major event in the 20th Century that involved the country. In 1911 the first female officer was sworn into service, three years before the outbreak of World War I and during both world wars, the department suffered a decrease in manpower as officers were called to serve in the armed forces. The next 100 years for the department saw it grow into the large, municipal department that it is today. Rockford took office and held the position for ten years - overseeing sweeping reforms that turned the department into a cohesive Law Enforcement Agency. The next twenty years would be a turbulent period that saw a total of fifteen Police Chiefs occupy the leadership role until Police Chief William C.
The militia group, known as the ‘San Andreas Rangers’ eventually formed the first paid police force when they were merged with another militia company, the Los Santos City Guards, in 1869. Due to its location, San Andreas was known for violence with Los Santos becoming one of the most dangerous cities in the United States for several years during this period. The Los Santos Police Department was founded in 1853 during the San Andreas Gold Rush and consisted primarily of a voluntary militia.
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