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In some U.S. states, the sheriff fills the same function as a police commissioner. For example in Las Vegas, Nevada the elected county sheriff heads a combined county-municipal Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (created via a 1975 merger of the Clark County Sheriff's Department and the former Las Vegas Police Department). Five (likely more) other U.S. police agencies use the title "Commissioner" for its highest-ranking official include the Buffalo Police Department (where Daniel Derenda is the commissioner), New York City Police Department (where Raymond Kelly is, as of May 2010, the titleholder), the Philadelphia Police Department (where Charles H. Ramsey is, as of May 2010, the titleholder) the California Highway Patrol (Joe Farrow) and the Baltimore City Police Department (where Frederick H. Bealefeld III is commissioner)
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