Chief David Boyett
NPD Police Academy #8 1972
Employed: June 8, 1971 Retired: September 28, 1995
Chief of Police 1988-1995

FBI LE Bulletin July 1986, Major David T. Boyett, NPD
. https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/july-1986.pdf

Innovators of NPD: By: NPD Historians May 2021
. https://www.normanok.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021-05/INNOVATORS%20OF%20NPD_BOYETT_FULL%20STORY_FINAL.pdf

In 1975, Boyett was promoted to Lieutenant and became the shift
commander in the Uniformed Patrol Division. Boyett had the
responsibility of personnel scheduling and allocation of police personnel.
Boyett also led coordination of traffic and crowd control for all home OU
football games. Boyett had the privilege of providing a broadcast pregame and post-game including live helicopter traffic reports for a local
radio station. The helicopter was also used to track drunk drivers and hit
and run accidents.

Under his leadership, Lt. Boyett also took command over a bankrupt
ambulance service and formed a new Emergency Medical Services
Division in the police department. Leading the design of the program,
Boyett also hired all of the department's EMS personnel who were EMTs
and later cross trained as commissioned police officers. Boyett is
especially proud of the 1978 state ambulance competition where the
Norman Police Emergency Medical Service took first place.
In 1979, Boyett was promoted to Captain and transferred to
administrative services. Boyett coordinated the recruitment and
conducted interviews for a new EMS Director before transferring to his
new role as Chief of Detectives in the department's Investigative Bureau.