WPD Past Chiefs of Police

Current and Past Chiefs of Police

  • B. R. Barker - October 1919 to August 1922 
  • Ross Robertson, Sr. - August 1922 to September 1924 
  • George Hartness - September 1924 to March 1925 
  • J. B. Barnett - March 1925 to April 1928 
  • H. Lowry - April 1928 to July 1929 
  • Bert Reynolds - July 1929 to December 1952 
  • George A. Read - December 1952 to August 1954 
  • Arthur E Cowley - August 1954 to January 1962 
  • Wayne Autrey - January 1962 to September 1964 
  • Norvall Terry - September 1964 to April 1968 
  • H.J. Norman - April 1968 to July 1972 
  • Ralph Adcox - July 1972 to February 1979 
  • John Looper - February 1979 to October 1981 
  • Elwood W Hoherz - April 1982 to December 1988 
  • Jerry Blaisdell - July 1989 to April 2008 
  • Mike Manning - February 2009 to 2017
  • Lance Arnold - July 2017 to Present