Chief Information Officer - SFPD

Company Description

The San Francisco Police Department was established in 1849 and continually strives to become a more effective, inclusive and modern police department, while earning the trust and pride of those we serve and those who serve. Our goal is to reflect on current SFPD initiatives, assess best practices across the country, and evaluate the changing environment in policing and within the City to arrive at a strategy statement that the Department and our community can embody every day.

The San Francisco Police Department stands for Safety and Respect for All. We will engage in just transparent unbiased and responsive policing. We will do so in the spirit of dignity and in collaboration with the community. And we will maintain and build trust and respect as the guardians of Constitutional and human rights.

The San Francisco Police Department is committed to excellence in law enforcement and is dedicated to the people, traditions and diversity of our City. The department provides service with understanding, response with compassion, performance with integrity and law enforcement with vision. The department has grown into a nationally known police department providing law enforcement services to one of the most recognized cities in the United States.

• Application Opening:December 18, 2025
• Final date to receive applications:Apply immediately, announcementmay close anytime after two weeks from posting date.
• Class & Compensation: $ - $
• Appointment Type:Permanent Exempt
  -This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.
• Work Location:SFPD Headquarters, 1245 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94158

Reporting to the Deputy Chief of the Administration Bureau, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) serves as the San Francisco Police Department’s senior technology executive and strategic leader for digital transformation. This position is responsible for modernizing the Department’s technology, operational systems, data practices, and privacy and surveillance governance.

The CIO is responsible for stewarding the Department’s full technology stack and enterprise architecture, ensuring systems are modern, secure, efficient, and cost-effective while supporting high-stakes public-safety operations and exercising final technology authority over major system, vendor, architecture, and deployment decisions.

This role oversees a portfolio of complex, mission-critical systems including the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, records and property management, case and investigations systems, human resource and recruitment platforms, cellular and radio communications, body-worn camera programs, e-citations, mobile data computers, and all other operationally essential public-safety applications. The CIO ensures these systems are integrated, reliable, secure, future-facing, and aligned with Citywide standards and law enforcement best practices.

• Develop and execute a multi-year technology modernization roadmap that improves daily operational workflows and reduces administrative burden for officers and civilian personnel.
• Redesign and enhance core operational systems, focusing on automation, user-centered design, and removal of bottlenecks in reporting, investigative workflows, and recruitment/hiring processes.
• Establish enterprise architecture and long-term technology standards that support scalability, interoperability, and resilience across the department and enforce compliance with those standards across all technology initiatives.

• Lead the strategy and governance approach for privacy-sensitive and surveillance technologies, partnering with the Department of Technology, the City Attorney, civilian oversight entities, and community stakeholders.
• Ensure all surveillance tools, including ALPR, body-worn cameras, drones, fixed and mobile public-safety cameras, and real-time…