Joseph’s selection ends city’s hushed search for a new department leader after the departure of Anthony Mata in April.
Paul Joseph speaks during a press conference at the San Jose Police Department in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, May 3, 2024. Joseph, who has been serving as the city’s acting police chief since April, was named to the permanent job Tuesday. Joseph, who has spent 30 years with the San Jose Police Department, has been serving as the agency’s interim leader since April, when Anthony MataThe appointment of Joseph marks the fourth time since 2011 that an acting chief has landed the permanent job.
Joseph’s appointment continues a nearly 50-year streak of internal or homegrown police veterans to take the helm of SJPD, which has not seen a true outsider named chief since. William Landsdowne might be the closest instance when he became chief in 1998 after serving as the top cop in Richmond, but he built his police career working in San Jose.
The city’s process to find Mata’s successor was also relatively low profile and far less public-facing than past searches. Since Mata announced his retirement from SJPD in January, the city conducted a national search for chief candidates, a process that in recent history has largely amounted to pretense., but they were not considered serious contenders.
A Los Angeles native, Joseph earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Cal State Northridge and a law degree from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. Under Mata and Joseph, the department underwent an independent audit of its hiring and backgrounding practices, and random audits of officers’ body-camera videos.
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