Charmane Osborn

Assistant Chief Charmane Osborn has served with the Phoenix Police Department for 26 years. She has worked in various capacities around the department to include: Family Investigations, Transit, Professional Standards, Central Booking and the City Manager’s Office as the Department’s Police Liaison to City Council. Operationally she has worked patrol in several precincts to include Maryvale Precinct, Central City Precinct, and she served as a sergeant, lieutenant and the commander of the Desert Horizon Precinct.

Assistant Chief Osborn is a legacy child for the Phoenix Police Department; her father was a motor officer killed in the line of duty in May of 1984, when she was in high school. Even with this tragedy, she has dedicated herself to the community and volunteers with multiple organizations including: the Phoenix Police Museum, the Phoenix Police Honor Guard, she is the treasurer for the FBI National Academy Associates – Arizona Chapter, and an adjunct member of the FBI National Academy Associates (National) Finance Board. She currently is the police department’s liaison for the Neighborhood Block Watch Oversite Committee. 

Assistant Chief Osborn graduated in March of 2018 from the 271st session of the FBI National Academy. She has a Master of Arts degree in Business and Organizational Security Management from Webster University (2009), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Administration of Justice from Arizona State University (1999) – Go Devils!