Jay Mastick

• Rank: Commander
• Group: Detective Services Group
• Email: 32471@lapd.online

Bio

Commander Jay Mastick is a 30-year member of the Los Angeles Police Department. As a leader of the Department, Commander Mastick takes great pride in crime reduction and in building and maintaining public trust in the Los Angeles Police Department.

Commander Mastick joined the Department in 1995 and has enjoyed a variety of assignments including Newton Area as a patrol officer, 77th Street Area as a patrol officer, and Harbor Area as a Field Training Officer. In 2001, Mastick was transferred to Operations-South Bureau and assigned to the Administrative Unit.

Commander Mastick was promoted to Sergeant in 2002 and assigned to Wilshire Area where he worked the bike unit and as a field supervisor in patrol. Mastick was transferred in 2005 to Jail Division and served as a Watch Commander. Mastick returned to Harbor Area in the fall of 2005 as a field supervisor and complaint investigator. In 2006, Commander Mastick transferred to Internal Affairs Group and served as an investigator.

In 2009 Commander Mastick was assigned to the Department Advocate’s Office and represented the Department in internal disciplinary Board of Rights hearings. In 2012, Mastick transferred to Pacific Area and served as a Patrol Watch Commander at LAX, and as a plainclothes supervisor in the Crime Task Force, a joint crime suppression operation between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Airport Police.

In 2014, Commander Mastick was promoted to Lieutenant and assigned to Wilshire Area as a patrol Watch Commander. In 2016, Mastick returned to Internal Affairs Group and served as the Officer in Charge of Criminal Investigations Division, Central Section.

In 2019, Commander Mastick was promoted to Captain and assigned to Harbor Area as the Patrol Commanding Officer. In 2021, Mastick was promoted to Area Commanding Officer of Harbor Area and oversaw the daily operations of the 308 sworn and civilian personnel assigned to Harbor Area.

In 2022, Commander Mastick was promoted to Commander and briefly assigned to Operations-West Bureau, before returning to Operations-South Bureau in April 2022. Mastick served as the Assistant Commanding Officer, overseeing Bureau Operations for 77th Street, Southeast, Southwest and Harbor Areas, approximately 1400 total sworn and civilian personnel.

In January 2023, Commander Mastick transferred to Detective Bureau and currently oversees the daily Bureau operations for Robbery-Homicide, Gang and Narcotics, Commercial Crimes, Juvenile Divisions, Detective Support & Vice Division, as well as the two Department Crime Laboratories: Forensic Services Division and Technical Investigation Division. Commander Mastick also oversees the major narcotics squads as the Department executive representative for High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), and as the chairman of the Executive Committee of Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (LA IMPACT).

Commander Mastick has earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Public Administration degree from California State University, Long Beach. He has graduated from California POST Command College, the LAPD West Point Leadership program, Sherman Block Supervisor Leadership Institute, Senior Management Institute for Police, and has completed a Public Leadership Certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education.