Fort Lauderdale City Manager Chris Lagerbloom announced today the
appointment of Chief Patrick Lynn as the new Chief of Police for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department effective Monday, April 4, 2022.
This is a return to the department for Lynn, who served as Interim Chief in 2021. “Chief Lynn was a stabilizing figure last year during a period of transition for this department,“ Lagerbloom said. “He has the respect and support of the command staff and the rank and file. I reached out and asked if he’d be willing to come out of retirement, and thankfully, he said yes.”
“Fort Lauderdale PD is an excellent department with excellent people. For me, it’s an honor to have the opportunity to serve with them,” Lynn said.
Chief Lynn brings 35 years of law enforcement experience. 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.
