Career Paths - A Wide Range of Opportunity
Promotional Ranks
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Over 60 Specialized Units & Assignments
- 290 (Sex Offenders) Registration Team
- Air Support (Helicopter/Fixed Wing)
- Airport Police
- Assaults Unit
- Auto Theft Detail (vehicle crimes)
- Backgrounds Unit
- Bomb Squad
- Bureau Of Field Ops - Administration Unit
- Burglary Unit
- Canine Unit
- Child Exploits
- City Attorney Investigator Detail
- Court Liaison Unit
- Covert Response Unit
- Crime Analysis
- Crime Prevention
- Crime Scene Unit
- Crisis Management Unit
- DEA (Drug Task Force)
- Downtown Entertainment District (CMD)
- Family Violence Unit
- Field Training Program
- Financial Crimes Unit (Fraud)
- Gaming Unit
- Gang Investigations Unit
- Graffiti Abatement Unit
- Homicide Unit
- Intelligence Unit
- Internal Affairs
- Juvenile Unit
- MERGE Unit (SWAT team)
- Mayor's Security Detail
- Metro Unit (includes bicycle patrol)
- Missing Persons Unit
- Mounted Unit
- Night General Detectives
- Patrol (14 divisions)
- Permits Unit
- Police Academy
- Police Activities League (PAL)
- Police Personnel
- Pre-Processing Center
- Range
- RATTF (Bay Area Auto Theft Task Force)
- Recruiting Unit
- Research & Development
- Reserve Police Unit
- Robbery Unit
- School Liaison Unit
- Secondary Employment Unit
- Sexual Assaults Unit
- Systems Development
- Tactical Negotiator
- Terrorism Early Warning Group Traffic
- Enforcement Unit
- Traffic Investigations (vehicle crimes)
- Training Unit
- Vice Squad
- Video Unit
- Warrants/Fugitives Unit