Port Charles Police Department

Port Charles Police Department is also known as the PCPD. It is the police department of Port Charles. Over the years it has served the city, sometimes with mixed results. 
== Notable Employees ==
* Jordan Ashford (on leave as she works with the DEA): Commissioner 
* Mac Scorpio: Chief of Detectives/Acting Commissioner 
* Harrison Chase: Homicide Detective 
* Luca Russo: FBI consultant 
== Notable Events ==
*January 1983: Robert Scorpio is appointed the Commissioner of the PCPD.
*1985: Anna Devane serves as chief with Burt Ramsey, an experiment that ended in disaster. Ramsey would join the mob and Anna would step down in 1987.
*1996: Mac Scorpio becomes the PCPD's longest serving commissioner, holding the position until 2012. 
*2006: Manny Ruiz takes Maxie Jones hostage at the PCPD headquarters 
*2008: Johnny Zacchara takes Lulu Spencer hostage at the PCPD 
*2012: Detective Ronnie Dismestico is killed by John McBain. A long list of crimes committed by Dismestico plunge the PCPD into scandal and ends Mac's reign as commissioner. Anna takes over for a few years. 
*2015: Jordan Ashford is hired as commissioner. Mac is later hired on as the chief of detectives.
*2019: Mac Scorpio becomes acting commissioner while Jordan is on loan to the DEA.