San Francisco Police Chief Michael E. Mitchell. His appointment as Chief on January 13, 1948, was the sixth promotion with SFPD. His promotions: Corporal July 1, 1921; Sergeant, May 7, 1923; Lieutenant, October 20, 1924; Captain, October 12, 1940; Captain of Traffic, July 6, 1945; and Chief, January 13, 1948.
Vallejo, CA. Police Chief, Jack E. Stiltz. Appointed Chief on July 23, 1948, born in 1911 Stiltz was the first Vallejo officer to be sent to the FBI Police Academy in Washington. Promoted to Captain, June 15, 1948. Chief Stiltz was preceded by Chiefs : William Stanford who served for 35 years; Bert Foreman and Earl Dierking.
On March 4, 1949 Captain Joseph M. Walsh was given his fifth promotion in the San Francisco Police Department; Supervising Captain, making him an executive officer in the department. His promotion
records read as follows:
Corporal, July 1, 1925; Sergeant, April 1, 1927; Lieutenant, April 7, 1931; and to Captain July 1, 1939.
Hollister, CA Police Chief Roy McPhail. A native of San Francisco, born in 1912 and graduated from the University of California in in 1934. In 1935 he joined the FBI in Washington, D. S., during which he enrolled in the law school of Columbia College getting his degree in 1940. He served as supervisor in the Washington office, and was with the Kansas City and San Francisco offices of the FBI until the end of February 1945, when he resigned to take up a more quiet life. He returned to Hollister and in 1945 joined the Hollister PD. In 1946 he was promoted to Lieutenant. In 1947 he was promoted to Chief of Police.
Weed, CA Chief of Police Earl M. Pederson took over the department on March 1, 1948 at the age of 27. Chief Pederson was an officer at the University and Wilshire Stations in Los Angeles and attended the Los Angeles Police School. Weed has one police car with a California Highway Patrol radio, tuned to Station KSCY in Yreka. There are two officers in Weed beside the Chief. Officer C.A. Thompson, formerly a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff, and patrol special of San Francisco PD Southern Station. Officer Theo. Lockett, who has been an officer in Weed for the last 12 years.
Greenfield, Monterey Co., CA Chief of Police Joseph Corby who took office on January 1, 1941. He has three officers who are all furnished two-way radio cars that have a hook-up with Sheriff Jack McCoy's short wave radio station.
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