CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department held a formal swearing-in ceremony for the new chief of police, Estella Patterson, Friday morning at the police academy. The chief’s badge was ...

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 ...

Estella Patterson, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's first female chief, was sworn in at a ceremony in southwest Charlotte Friday morning that at times felt like a presidential ...

The city of Charlotte on Monday introduced Estella Patterson as its new chief of police. She will succeed Johnny Jennings, who is retiring at the end of the year. Patterson started her career at the ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police’s incoming chief, Estella Patterson, said her goal is to fill all officer vacancies at the department after she’s sworn in on Dec. 1. And once she’s done that, she said, ...