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About Field Operations Division
The Field Operations Division (FOD) is the uniformed patrol force of the City.  Officers patrol the City streets, answer calls for service, and work with the community to solve problems.  FOD consists of six geographic patrol zones, the Airport Section, the Crime Analysis Unit, the Police Athletic League, Community Services Unit, and the Special Operations Section.  The Night Commander is a position that serves as the ranking officer during the evening and morning watch hours to resolve problems and monitor critical situations.
 
Patrol Zones
Zone 1 (West Atlanta)
Zone 2 (North Atlanta)
Zone 3 (Southeast Atlanta)
Zone 4 (Southwest Atlanta)
Zone 5 (Downtown-Midtown)
Zone 6 (East Atlanta)
 
The patrol zones are organized as follows:
1.    Mobile Patrol Operations handle 911 calls twenty-four hours a day.  The zones work either a two shift twelve-hour workday, or a three-shift eight or ten hour workday.
 
2.    Teams of investigators are assigned to each geographic patrol zone to investigate assaults, terroristic threats, family violence, robbery, burglary, larcenies and auto-thefts.
3.    The Field Investigation Team (FIT) provides the zone commanders with flexibility to provide plain clothes enforcement of problems specific to the individual zones and other specialized assignments.
4.    The foot patrol units provide a variety of community policing and patrol operations covering a specific area of concentration.
 
Mini-precincts are facilities throughout the patrol zones that are intended to either provide a police presence in a community or to house special zone-related operations.

Field Operations Division
226 Peachtree Street SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Office: 404-546-7775
Fax:

Deputy Chief Ernest Finley
Field Operations Division Commander

Deputy Chief Ernest N. Finley Jr. began his career with the Atlanta Police Department on March 20, 1986, after serving four years in the U.S. Army and receiving his BS in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. He currently serves the community as the Zone Commander in Zone 3 and has done so since August of 2003.  

Deputy Chief Finley's career began as a officer in Zone 2 and Zone 6, before he joined RED DOG and then moved to the Personnel Section Background Investigations. In June 1993, Deputy Chief Finley was promoted to Sergeant and in 1998 was promoted to Lieutenant and supervised officers in Zone 6, Youth/Sex Crimes and the Narcotics Units.  

As Commander of the Narcotics Unit Deputy Chief Finley managed and supervised the Narcotics/Weed and Seed Units and was responsible for enforcement of laws against narcotics trafficking at street level. He has developed and implemented innovative strategies to reduce narcotics trafficking in drug-infested communities. Deputy Chief Finley was the Narcotics Commander for two years upon being appointed to the position of Major. 

Deputy Chief Finley has been recognized by organizations and businesses for his concern for the community he serves. He has received Officer of the Year for 2001 from the NPU V Community, Outstanding Community Service 2001 Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation, and City of Atlanta, Quality Customer Service Initiative, Third and Fourth Quarter, 2001.