INDIANAPOLIS —Twenty-six-year veteran Bryan Roach has been named the Chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
During his career, Roach has held every rank, merit and appointed, within the police department. Most recently, he has served as Assistant Chief of Administration for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. As Assistant Chief, he has made significant strides in streamlining department processes, finding efficiencies and identifying significant savings of taxpayer dollars. His leadership has created an atmosphere of cooperation among government and private agencies that has broken down bureaucratic silos and led to increased public safety. For the last six months, Roach has served on Mayor Hogsett’s Criminal Justice Reform Task Force, working to identify opportunities for systemic change in the criminal justice system, focused on intervention and assessment. Roach also recently authored a grant that added 15 beat officers for three years — at a savings of several million dollars of local tax payer dollars.
Chief Roach began his career in 1991 as a patrol officer in North District before rising through the ranks as a Narcotics Detective, Sergeant and supervisor of the North District Neighborhood Resource Unit. In 2002 he was named the administrative assistant to the Assistant Chief of Operations. In 2005, Roach was promoted to Lieutenant and served as the administrative assistant to the Chief of Police.
Roach’s career has been decorated with recognition and accolades. In 2016, he was awarded with the Jake Laird Local Public Safety Hero Award. In 2015, he was presented the Hulman Health Achievement Award by the Indiana Public Health Community for being instrumental in Indiana’s first law enforcement life-saving program for opiate overdose victims. He is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy, served as an IPD SWAT team member from 1996 to 2005, and has been awarded two Medals of Valor and the Medal of Merit.
