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Fort Lauderdale City Manager
Chris Lagerbloom announced the
appointment of retired Police Chief
Patrick Lynn as the new Interim
Police Chief for the Fort
Lauderdale Police Department
effective Monday, Feb. 22, 2021.
Chief Lynn will oversee the City’s fully
accredited Police Department,
which includes more than 700
law enforcement officers and
support professionals.

Chief Lynn brings 35 years of
law enforcement experience to his
position as Interim Police Chief.
He began his law enforcement
career as a patrol officer with the
City of Pembroke Pines Police Department in 1982 and
rose through the ranks before retiring as the city’s Deputy
Chief in 2007. Following his retirement from Pembroke
Pines, Chief Lynn served as the Police Chief for the Town
of Davie Police Department from 2007 to 2017.
Chief Lynn’s career includes extensive experience in
operations, investigations, and the administration of
technologically innovative, community-oriented police
agencies. Some of his accomplishments include revamping
department hiring and Internal Affairs processes to ensure
compliance with state statutes, increasing minority
recruitment and hiring community-focused personnel,
initiating and completing the construction of a $2.5 million
training facility/firearms range to eliminate overtime
expenses associated with training and range leasing costs,
and establishing a full-time domestic violence investigations
position to ensure that all reports of domestic violence are
documented and investigated.

Chief Lynn holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in
public administration from Florida Atlantic University. He is
also a graduate of the 210th Session of the FBI National
Academy and the Southern Police Institute Command
Officers Course. In addition, Chief Lynn served as the
President of the Broward County Chiefs of Police
Association and Chairman of the High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Area, South Florida Money Laundering Task
Force Steering Committee.

The City of Fort Lauderdale will continue moving forward
with conducting a search for a permanent Police Chief.

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