As Estella Patterson starts her new role as chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, WCNC Charlotte has learned ...

The City of Raleigh will pay almost $1 million to the mother of a man who died after police shocked him with a Taser in Jan.

Patterson, the department’s first female chief, will make an annual salary of $285,000. That is nearly $5,000 more than previous chief Johnny Jennings received and $52,000 more than she was making as ...

Estella Patterson will begin her tenure as Charlotte’s next chief of police Monday, according to our partners at The ...

Asked if they were withholding documents about compensation for the new police chief or if none existed, city officials didn’t answer.

Raleigh settled a lawsuit filed by the mother of Darryl Williams, who died in 2023 after Raleigh police shocked him with a Taser multiple times.

Outgoing Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said she would consider another job after taking some time off to spend with family. Patterson's last day as Raleigh police chief is on Friday. She took ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Friday is the last full day on the job for Raleigh's top cop. After 28 years in law enforcement, Chief Estella Patterson is set to retire Saturday. The law enforcement ...

Estella Patterson, the former chief of the Raleigh Police Department, will take over as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police chief. Patterson, who started her career at CMPD in 1996 and worked at the ...

Hours after their names were made public, the three finalists made their case to the public about why they should be Raleigh’s next police chief. The candidates weighed in Monday night on topics like ...