List of Police Chiefs of Atlanta
There have been many police chiefs of the Atlanta Police Department in the history of Atlanta, Georgia.
The city shifted from a rural, Marshal/Deputy Marshal model in 1873.
The current police chief is former Assistant Police Chief Rodney Rodney Bryant, after Chief Erika Shields resigned following the killing of Rayshard Brooks. Bryant will serve as interim police chief until the city finds a replacement.
| Name | Date appointed | Force size | Budget | - |
| Thomas Jones | July 1873 | 26 | | - |
| James A. Anderson | January 1876 | 33 | | - |
| L. P. Thomas | April 1, 1878 | 33 | | - |
| Lovice T. Anderson | April 14, 1880 | 37 | | - |
| Arthur B. Connolly | April 1881 | 45 | | - |
| W. P. Manley | August 20, 1897 | 171 | | - |
| John W. Ball | March 30, 1901 | 178 | | - |
| Henry Jennings | March 30, 1905 | 196 | | - |
| James Beavers | August 11, 1911 | 254 | | - |
| W. M. Mayes | August 3, 1915 | 267 | | - |
| James Beavers | November 8, 1917 | 283 | | - |
| E. L. Jett | February 15, 1924 | 339 | | - |
| James Beavers | May 19, 1926 | 386 | | - |
| T. O. Sturdivant | April 30, 1932 | 408 | $779,145 | - |
| M. A. Hornsby | February 1, 1937 | 461 | 973,264 | - |
| Herbert Turner Jenkins | February 2, 1947 | 526 | 1,564,010 | - |
| John F. Inman | March 20, 1972 | 1,508 | 16,195,775 | - |
| A. Reginald Eaves | 1974 | | | - |
| Lee P. Brown | 1978 | | | - |
| George Napper | 1978 | | | - |
| Morris Redding | 1982 | | | - |
| Eldrin Bell | 1990 | | | - |
| Beverly J. Harvard | 1994 | | | - |
| Richard Pennington | 2002 | 1,639 | 172,418,028 | - |
| George N. Turner | January 4, 2010 | 1,639 | | - |
| Erika Shields | December 28, 2016 | 1,700+ | $204,754,624 | |
| Rodney Bryant | June 13, 2020 | | | - |
