Jay Mastick

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

Bio

Commander Jay Mastick is a 28-year member of the Los Angeles Police Department. As a member of the Department, Commander Mastick takes great pride in crime reduction and as well as building and maintaining the 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 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 a plainclothes supervisor in the Crime Task Force, a joint 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 Captain 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, then April 2022, he returned to Operations-South Bureau 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 oversaw the daily Bureau operations of Robbery-Homicide, Gang and Narcotics, Commercial Crimes, Juvenile Divisions, as well as the two Department Crime Laboratories Forensic Services Division and Technical Investigation Division, and COMPSTAT Division. Mastick also serves at the Department executive committee representative to both the major narcotics taskforces LA Impact and HIDTA.

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