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Within SFPD’s Operations, Deputy Chief Raj Vaswani oversees the Special Operations Bureau. He was previously Deputy Chief of the Investigations Bureau. Within the Investigations Bureau are the Crime Lab, CSI, and ID Bureau. All felony crimes are assigned for investigation in one of the Units within the Bureau. Some of the Units are Homicide, Community Violence Reduction Team (including all undercover enforcement teams), Gun Crime Intelligence (ATF Task Force), Special Victims Unit, General Works District Investigations, Narcotics, Federal Task Forces, Special Investigations, Burglary Investigations (Organized Retail Crime) & Robbery Investigations.

DC Vaswani has a passion for community service, he wanted to become a police officer since he was in 5^th grade.   With over 30 years of Law Enforcement experience, he has worked in various neighborhood Stations such as Southern, Bayview, Ingleside, Park, Northern, and Citywide Traffic Company (Solo Motorcycles). He was the Captain of Park Station and Bayview Station. Some of the specialty assignments he has worked in after patrol are foot/bike beats, public housing, undercover/narcotics/street crimes, legal division, administration, & investigations

Catherine McGuire grew up in Austin, Texas, but fell in love with San Francisco after visiting relatives who lived here. She later worked at the San Francisco Controller’s Office.

McGuire received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Theory and a master’s degree in Public Affairs from The University of Texas at Austin. She got to know the SFPD while working at the Controller’s Office, where she was part of a team that managed the Police Executive Research Forum’s Organizational Assessment. She also led a team that developed an incident-tracking database for crime on public transportation, which helped prioritize resources to the highest-crime stops, routes and times. McGuire subsequently served as finance manager of the Juvenile Probation Department and then as the SFPD’s CFO. Her bureau supports the department by overseeing all Fiscal, Technology, and Change Management efforts.