Delrish Moss

Delrish Moss is a law enforcement veteran appointed in March 2016 as Police Chief of Ferguson Police Department (Missouri) of Ferguson, Missouri a suburb of St. Louis known for racial unrest. Moss was sworn in May 9, 2016, becoming the first permanent African American chief in Ferguson, where the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, served as a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Moss was born in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Miami High School in 1982. Growing up in Overtown, he witnessed violence in the community, and he was once frisked by a Miami police officer for no apparent reason. Moss says his motivation to eventually become a police officer was that he wanted to teach police how to treat people."

In 1984 Moss worked as a public service aide for Miami Police Department and decided to pursue a career in law enforcement. Within three years he was a patrolman on the streets of Miami's historically black communities, Overtown, Liberty City, Allapattah and Coconut Grove. He was promoted to homicide detective in 1989. In 1995 then-Police Chief Donald Warsaw convinced Moss to become a spokesman for the city.

In that role Moss caught national attention when he spoke for the police department while Little Havana suffered violence and fires in 2000 after federal agents took Elian Gonzalez . Moss handled communications in 2005 when Miami Commissioner Arthur Teele,Jr., killed himself in the Miami Herald building. Police Chief John Timoney added Moss to his executive team in 2009. In 2011 Moss was promoted to major by Police Chief Manuel Orosa. Moss led the Miami Police Department's Public Information/Community Relations division, reporting directly to the Chief of police.

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