The Port Charles Police Department, also known as the P.C.P.D., is the police department of Port Charles, New York. It has handled several crimes in the city, but not always well. It has had several officers who were also informants to the mob.
For a list of fugitives from Port Charles, please refer to:
History[]
Interrogation - 1979
Cameron and Spencer in the jail cells at the P.C.P.D. (2022)
The Port Charles Police Department (P.C.P.D.) has played a continuing prominent role on General Hospital since 1979, when P.C.P.D. Captain Burt Ramsey became a series regular. In January 1983, Robert Scorpio was appointed P.C.P.D. Commissioner, a post he held until December of 1985.
Lee Baldwin, leaving shortly as Mayor, declined Robert's recommendation to appoint Captain Ramsey as Commissioner, which led to Burt Ramsey and Anna Devane being named Co-Chiefs of the P.C.P.D. by incoming Mayor Ken Morgan. This was an experiment which led to disaster, with Burt deciding to become head of the Port Charles mob.
Anna assumed sole command of the P.C.P.D. in December of 1986, but was forced to resign in April of 1987 when unsubstantiated allegations of mob influence continued to swirl around the department. Captain Guy Lewis was appointed as Chief, and he continued to run the department for the rest of the year.
Robert Scorpio, back in town after a brief exit, was asked by the state police commissioner and Chief Lewis to re-assume command as commissioner, a post he accepted in early 1988 with the kidnapping of Anna by Grant Putnam. The second time, Scorpio served as P.C.P.D. Commissioner for 4 years. During that time Anna served as acting P.C.P.D. commissioner in January of 1990 when Robert faked his death to solve a murder, and Chief Lewis stepped in to serve as acting commissioner in the Spring of 1991 when Scorpio briefly became a fugitive, along with his brother Mac.
When Robert left to find Anna in early 1992, Sean Donely reluctantly agreed to serve as Acting Commissioner, pending the return of Scorpio. When Anna and Robert were declared dead, Sean took the permanent job, and served for three years until 1995, when he was shot and left Port Charles for Boston. No head of the P.C.P.D. was mentioned for over a year, until 1996 when Robert's brother Mac Scorpio took over.
Mac served as Commissioner between 1996 and 2012. Compared to his brother Robert as Commissioner, Mac was much more of an administrator than Robert, who left many of those routine duties to others.
Commissioner and Lead Detective in her office (2022)
The PCPD enjoying downtime (2024)
In 2006, A shootout occurred at the police station when Manny Ruiz took the police commissioner's stepdaughter, Maxie Jones, hostage. Dillon Quartermaine was shot and Maxie was saved by Diego Alcazar, who ironically attempts to kill Maxie two years later. Dillon later recovers. In July 2008, there was almost another hostage crisis at the P.C.P.D. involving Lulu Spencer, Johnny Zacchara, and Edward Quartermaine.
In early 2012, A member of the P.C.P.D. Ronnie Dimestico was revealed to be a Serial Attacker and was responsible for kidnapping both Lulu and Sam and for threatening to kill both of them as well as threatening to also kill Dante Falconeri, after Ronnie was shot and killed by John McBain all of Ronnie's crimes were revealed and the P.C.P.D. went through a scandal forcing the Mayor Janice Lomax to fire to Mac Scorpio as Police Commissioner. The mayor later hires Anna Devane, making it her second time to lead the P.C.P.D., the first being; between December of 1985 and May of 1987.
In January 2014, Anna hires Det. Nathan West and assigns him as the partner of Det. Dante Falconeri.
The following January of 2015, Janice Lomax is elected as mayor of Port Charles again and as her first act in her new term she fires Anna Devane and hires Kyle Sloane as the new Commissioner.
After Sloane was fired in late May 2015, Mayor Lomax appointed former Federal Agent Jordan Ashford to the job of Commissioner.
In early 2018, after Nathan is killed, Jordan hires Det. Harrison Chase and assigns him as the new partner of Det. Dante Falconeri. However, on June 28, 2018, Dante leaves town to join a W.S.B. mission.
Dante returns from his W.S.B. mission in March of 2019 and Jordan offered him his job back, but since Dante was suffering from P.T.S.D. and feared that he'd been brainwashed, he left town again to seek help.
As Jordan was recovering from her kidney problems, Laura Collins reinstates Mac Scorpio as commissioner but only temporarily until Jordan can get back to work. Later on, Jordan hired Mac as Chief of Detectives in the P.C.P.D..
In 2022, during the manhunt for the villainous fugitive Peter August, Dante and Mac end up in the hospital. Mac ends up in surgery and critical condition, and Dante recovers, with Laura naming him temporary commissioner while Mac is healing.
On June 19, 2023, after some convincing, Jordan accepts the position of Deputy Mayor offered to her by Mayor Laura Collins, agreeing to resign as Commissioner. The next day, Marcus Taggert visits her asking for a job at the PCPD, and she offers him the now open Commissioner title. He is surprised she thinks he's qualified and she shares that she wouldn't have offered if she didn't think he'd do a good job of it. It's not his outright but will happily submit his name for approval after he agrees to go for the job.
On September 13, 2023, it was revealed that Mac Scorpio is the Current Police Commissioner. In 2024, Anna Devane agrees to take the offered position of police commissioner, and when Mac returns from being out of the country, he again is the chief of detectives.Police Department personnel[]
- Police Commissioner Anna Devane
- Chief of Detectives Mac Scorpio
- Detective Dante Falconeri, former acting police commissioner
- Detective Harrison Chase
- Detective Lopez[2]
- Detective Calvin Bennet[3], also instructor at the police academy[4]
- Desk Sergeant Tony Robinson
- Desk Sergeant Conan[5]
- Officer Bentley[6]
- Officer Delmonico
- Officer Hendricks
- Officer Perez[7]
- Officer Dex Heller[8][9]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- General Hospital, the Port Charles Courthouse and the offices of Mason, Petrovich, and Miller are also located on Central Avenue.
References[]
- ↑ Shown on Julian Jerome's P.C.P.D. file on 10-28-13
- ↑ On 3/24/2022, she was seen leaving with Cameron and Josslyn to talk about their sex tape
- ↑ First seen on 1/3/23
- ↑ Stated 4/1/24
- ↑ Seen on 9/19/23
- ↑ On 3/21/22, Officer Bentley called Dante
- ↑ On 3/24&25/22, seen at the PCPD
- ↑ As of 4/30/2024, Anna congratulates Dex on passing the academy
- ↑ As of 9/5/2024, Dex graduated from the academy
- ↑ Mentioned on 11/2/20 episode
- ↑ The mayor was questioned about him taking a 4th leave of absence, and that he wasn't coming back. 04/24/96
