The Los Angeles Police Department added to its ranks on Friday with the graduation of 16 officers from the Los Angeles Police Academy. The graduates are a diverse group of 13 men and three women.

She touted McDonnell’s leadership experience — as a 29-year veteran of LAPD, and held several ranks leading up to first assistant chief of police before he left in 2010 to lead the Long Beach ...

Two Los Angeles Port Police officers also graduated Friday. The ceremony at Elysian Park Academy included representatives from Mayor Karen Bass’ office, members of the L.A. Board of Police ...

McDonnell became the 59th Los Angeles Chief of Police during a ceremony at the LAPD Police Academy. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Show Caption.

Mayor Karen Bass swore in the city’s new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Jim McDonnell, at a morning ceremony Thursday, Nov. 14 at Elysian Park Academy near downtown as his wife ...