OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland's police chief wants ... Mitchell's specific request is to allow OPD to "rescind Special Order 9212" put into place in 2022 by then-Police Chief Leronne Armstrong that ...

The Oakland Police Commission said revisions to the local police pursuit policy alone won’t be enough to fix the underlying issues that led to last week’s deadly crash. ... would rescind a restriction ...

Mitchell's specific request is to allow OPD to "rescind Special Order 9212" put into place in 2022 by then-Police Chief Leronne Armstrong that required the "automatic termination" of all police ...

Those rules, issued under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in late 2022, following a spike in police pursuits and deadly crashes, require officers who don’t have additional command approval to ...

The Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force will be working with Oakland officers for several weeks to enforce felony ...

The Oakland Police Department would need to hire nearly 200 more officers to adequately protect the city, according to a new staffing report.

OAKLAND — Homicide investigators released the mug shot of one suspect and still images of four others as they appealed the ...

Oakland Police arrested three after an armed robbery involving threats with an object, cash and cigarette theft, and a ...

The police department has 678 sworn officers, and the report recommends hiring 199 more. City Council members addressed the challenges Oakland faces in trying get more people on board.

Authorities are bringing renewed attention to a homicide in Oakland that has gone cold and left a young man dead.