The Santa Barbara Police Department (SBPD) is the principle law enforcement agency in the city of Santa Barbara. It is headquartered in the Santa Barbara Police Station.
Employees[]
- Carlton Lassiter (chief of SBPD, former head detective)
- Buzz Mcnab (head detective, former police officer)
- Dobson (detective mentioned throughout the series who makes his first appearance in The Break-Up)
- Goochberg (police officer)
- Pierce (police officer)
- Scott Reynolds (police officer)
- Cindy Murdoch (police officer)
- Martha Allen (desk sergeant)
- March (Head of Internal Affairs)
- Cameron Luntz (SWAT Commander)
- Forensic Investigator (forensic investigator)
Former Employees[]
- Karen Vick (former chief, now chief of SFPD)
- Juliet O'Hara (former SBPD detective, now head detective of SFPD)
- Betsy Brannigan (last appearance in The Break-Up)
- Henry Spencer (retired detective/retired consultant advisor turned temporary criminology professor in The Break-Up)
- Shawn Spencer (former consultant with SBPD, now consultant for SFPD)
- Burton "Gus" Guster (former consultant with SBPD, now consultant for SFPD)
- Woodrow Strode (former coroner, now assistant coroner of SFPD)
- Madeleine Spencer (retired police psychologist)
- Mary Lightly (deceased police psychologist)
- Lucinda Barry (former junior detective who transferred away after the Pilot episode)
- Harris Trout (interim chief, fired in "Someone's Got a Woody")
- Dan Cooper (deceased Internal Affairs officer)
- Brett Connors (retired captain)
- Lou Gamble (retired detective)
- Jerry Carp (retired detective)
- Jack Atwater (retired detective)
- Ray (retired detective)
- Floyd Peters
- Boone
- Herb Wilkins
- Officer Jeff Mormenson (fictional police officer made up by Shawn)