Robert Coll

Robert J. Coll

Police career

Department Pittsburgh Police
Years of service 1960-1986
(Pittsburgh Police)
Rank - Pittsburgh Chief
March 1, 1975-
April 4, 1986

Robert J. Coll (born 1934) was a longtime Pittsburgh Police leader, who served as Pittsburgh Police Chief from March 1, 1975 – April 4, 1986. He first joined the force in 1960.[1][2][3] In the last year of his tenure as Chief the Pittsburgh Police boasted 1,200 sworn officers.[4]

In 1977, Chief Coll made headlines while attending a community meeting with the comment that the then state law prohibited him from reprimanding officers with suspensions or dismissals.[5]

Chief Coll on being a cop

I don't think flair ever solved a crime. You can employ all the technological advances, you can read all of the books and all the brochures, but key to being a police officer is, and will always be, underststanding people.

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A 1987 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview.

In February, 1981 a long simmering political feud erupted during a Pittsburgh City Council meeting at City Hall between Chief Coll and longtime councilmember and sometimes council president Eugene "Jeep" DePasquale, with accusations of lying and shouting.[6] Coll was the last chief before Mayor Caliguri's summer 1986 police reorganization that put the nine long time city police precincts under the current five "police zones" format.[7]

After his retirement he became Director of the Allegheny County Police Training Academy in suburban North Park. A position he assumed in January, 1987.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A8EcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-WIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=robert%20coll%20police&pg=4590%2C1503786
  2. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-fNfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=71UMAAAAIBAJ&dq=robert%20coll%20police&pg=6465%2C1036981
  3. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=A8EcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-WIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=robert%20coll%20police&pg=4590%2C1503786
  4. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HZIcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TGIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=safety%20director%20pittsburgh&pg=4315%2C399661
  5. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sn9IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6999%2C1509263
  6. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y2QdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=01wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6421%2C306086
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NK9RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xG4DAAAAIBAJ&dq=pittsburgh%20police%20precinct&pg=6704%2C2274506
  8. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sc9RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9m0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3222%2C684154
Legal offices
Preceded by
Robert Colville		 Pittsburgh Police Chief
1975-1986 		Succeeded by
William Ward
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