Assistant Chief Ed Turas
Assistant Chief Turas is responsible for GPD’s Support Operations, which includes the Criminal Investigations Division consisting of Detectives, Juvenile Investigations and the Identification Bureau. Support Operations also includes the Special Investigations Division, which provides investigations into vice-narcotics and organized crime with a focus on drug trafficking, public corruption and Homeland Security. He is also Commander of the Special Situations Unit which includes SWAT, the Bomb Squad, Crisis Negotiators, Mobile Field Force, and the Mobile Command,
Assistant Chief Turas joined the GPD in 1998 after serving for eight years as a paramedic. He has commanded the Patrol Division, Criminal Investigations Division, Special Investigations Division, and the Administrative Services Budget and Finance. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts from UNC-Charlotte, a masters in Justice Administration from Methodist University, and the State of North Carolina’s Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate.
He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the FBI and US Army Hazardous Devices School, West Point Leadership Program, and the Gaston Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Gaston. He serves a board member with the Gaston Controlled Substance Committee, the Treatment Linkages Committee, and is a steering committee advocate for the Family Justice Center. He is a co-founder of the Pink Patch Project. He also serves as a professor of Criminal Justice Studies at Gardner-Webb University and Gaston College, and as a program director for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Contact Information:
Gastonia Police Department
(P.O. Box 1748 Gastonia, NC 28052-1748)
704.866.6889

(P.O. Box 1748 Gastonia, NC 28052-1748)
704.866.6881
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