Meet the Chief of Police

Oklahoma City Manager Craig Freeman announced in August 2024 the selection of Ron C. Bacy as Oklahoma City’s 51st police chief.

Chief Ron C. Bacy has served with the police department since August 1992. He began his career as a patrol officer in the Springlake Division. Bacy was promoted to lieutenant in 2002 and served in the Santa Fe and Springlake patrol divisions, where he was also a Field Training Officer supervisor, Emergency Response Team supervisor and an on-call PIO. He later served in the Training and the Special Investigations divisions. He was promoted to captain in 2010 and held assignments in the Operations Bureau, the Investigations Bureau and the Office of Professional Standards.

In 2019, Bacy was promoted to major and assigned to the Southwest Division. He was subsequently assigned to the Operations Administration Division. He was promoted to deputy chief in January 2021 and oversaw the Operations Bureau and the Investigations Bureau. Bacy also served as a member of the Oklahoma City Law Enforcement Policy Task Force and the Oklahoma City Community Policing Working Group.

Bacy has a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Central Oklahoma and a bachelor’s degree in law enforcement administration and management from the University of Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Session 265, the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Policing and the Major Cities Chiefs Association's Police Executive Leadership Institute.

Over the years, Bacy has served as a board member or volunteer for several organizations to include the Academy of Law & Public Safety at Douglass High School, the OSU-OKC Police Science Advisory Board, Oklahoma CASA, Stop the Violence OKC and the OCPD FACT Program.