- Rodolfo Llanes was named police chief Dec. 15 and is set to retire October 2016.
- Manuel Orosa was named police chief in 2011 and will retire January 2015.
- Miguel Exposito was police chief from 2009 to 2011
- John Timoney was police chief from 2003 to 2009
- Raul Martinez was police chief from 2000 to 2003
- William O'Brien was police chief from 1998 to 2000
- Donald Warshaw was police chief from 1994 to 1998
- Calvin Ross was police chief from 1991 to 1994
- Perry Anderson Jr. was police chief from 1988 to 1991
- Clarence Dickson was the first African-American police chief from 1985 to 1988
- Herbert Breslow was police chief from 1984 to 1985
- Kenneth T. Harms was police chief from 1978 to 1984
- Garland P. Watkins was police chief from 1975 to 1978
- Bernard L. Garmire was police chief from 1969 to 1974
- Walter E. Headley was police chief from 1948 to 1968
- Frank Mitchell was police chief from 1946 to 1948
- Charles O. Nelson was police chief again from 1944 to 1946
- Howard Leslie Quigg was police chief again from 1937 to 1944
- John B. Rowland was police chief 1936 to 1937
- D.D. McCreary was police chief 1933 to 1936
- Guy C. Reeve was police chief 1928 to 1933
- Howard Leslie Quigg was police chief from 1921 to 1928
- Raymond F. Dillon was police chief from 1917 to 1921
- William J. Whitman was police chief from 1914 to 1917
- Charles Robert Ferguson was police chief from 1911 until 1914.
- Frank B. Hardee was Miami's first police chief. He served from 1906 to 1911.
- Miami was born in 1896 and the city's first law enforcement officer was Young F. Gray.
SOURCE: Miami Police Veterans Association