The San Francisco Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Overview[]
Leland Stottlemeyer was the youngest officer in the history of the Department to be promoted to Detective stated in Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever (a rank formally called "Inspector" in the SFPD hierarchy). He was eventually promoted to Captain of the department's Homicide Detail. Randy Disher, formerly a Detective Sergeant with the police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, transferred to the SFPD and was promoted to Lieutenant, and became Stottlemeyer's chief aide. Randy eventually accepts a job as the new police chief of Summit, New Jersey, having taken the job so he could move in with Sharona Fleming, his long-distance girlfriend.
Adrian Monk was one of the most celebrated detectives in the history of the department. According to one of his former partners, Joe Christie, in his heyday Monk once had seven other detectives lined up outside his office, waiting to ask him questions about one of their cases. The SFPD was where Monk considered he belonged, and after suffering a nervous breakdown as a result of the murder of his wife, Trudy, Monk made it his personal goal to rejoin its ranks as a detective. Throughout the series he was shown pursuing the job of a detective again (episodes such as "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival" and "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" showed him going up before the review board, but both times he failed to be recommended) and finally succeeded in "Mr. Monk and the Badge." He quickly realized, however, that a lot had changed at the station and he would be much happier as a consultant.
Personnel[]
- Chief Brenner[1]
- Commissioner Harry Ashcombe (formerly, arrested)
- Commissioner Robert Brooks
- Deputy Commissioner Patrick Larson[2]
- Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (formerly)
- Captain Lisa Rudner
- Lieutenant Adam Kirk
- Lieutenant Randy Disher (formerly, later chief of Summit Police)
- Sergeant Danny Weaver
- Sergeant Ryan Sharkey Jr. (arrested)
- Inspector Adrian Monk (formerly, later consulting detective)
- Inspector Joe Christie
- Inspector Louis Doyle
- Inspector Terry Chasen (deceased)
- Corporal Alice Westergren (arrested)
- Officer Denny Jardeen (formerly, deceased)
- Officer Russell DiMarco (deceased)
Other Personnel[]
- Evidence clerk Clara Toplyn (formerly, arrested)
- Forensic scientist Howard Gordon (arrested)
- Parole officer Michael Kenworthy (formerly, arrested)
Book-Exclusive Characters[]
- Deputy chief Harlan Fellows (formerly)
- Captain Arnold Thurman (formerly)
- Lieutenant A.J. Thurman
- Lieutenant Amy Devlin
- Inspector Cindy Chow (formerly)
- Inspector Frank Porter (formerly)
- Inspector Jack Lansdale
- Inspector Jack Wyatt (formerly)
- Inspector Paul Braddock (formerly, deceased)
- Vice detective Nicholas Slade (formerly, arrested)
- Officer Joe Nazio
- Officer Kent Milner (deceased)