Previous Chiefs and Marshals of Santa Rosa Police Department
H.G. PARKS – MARSHAL
1867 - 1868
Marshal Parks was the first marshal elected with the town incorporation in 1867. He headed a department of two.
JOHN FARMER - MARSHAL
1868 - 1869
JERRY CLAYPOOL - MARSHAL
1869 - 1870
THEODORE PARK - MARSHAL
1870 - 1872
WILLIAM MEAD - MARSHAL
1872 - 1873
J.M. WHITE - MARSHAL
1873 - 1878
W.S. BECKNER - MARSHAL
1878 - 1880
J.M. WHITE - MARSHAL
1880 - 1884
J.B. DAVIS - MARSHAL
1884 - 1886
J.J. LOWREY - MARSHAL
1886 - 1890
ISAIAH CHARLES – MARSHAL
1890 - 1892
LOUIS BREITENBACH – MARSHAL
1892 – 1893
Marshal Breitenbach was one of a long line of Town Marshals elected to serve the citizens of Santa Rosa before there was an official city police department. He was arrested in 1893 for taking $1,164 of city money and was convicted of embezzlement.
W.J. STEADMAN - MARSHAL
1893 - 1898
CHARLES H. HOLMES, JR. – MARSHAL
1898 & 1902
GEORGE SEVERSON – MARSHAL
1902 – 1906
ALFRED E. RUSHMORE – CHIEF
1906 – 1910
JOHN M. BOYES – CHIEF
1910 – 1918
GEORGE W. MATTHEWS – CHIEF
1918 – 1928
CHARLES B. O’NEAL – CHIEF
1928 – 1935
Chief O’Neal holds the tragic place in the department’s history as being the first Santa Rosa officer killed in the line of duty.
EMIL BIAVASCHI – CHIEF
1935 – 1939
WATSON B. MAXWELL – CHIEF
1939 – 1940
MELVIN F. "DUTCH" FLOHR – CHIEF
1940 – 1974
SALVATORE V. ROSANO – CHIEF
1974-1996
MICHAEL A. DUNBAUGH – CHIEF
1996 – 2004
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2004 - 2008
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2008 - 2009
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2009 - PRESENT