Jesse Anderson

Chief Jesse Anderson has twenty nine years of policing experience with the King County Sheriff’s Office. Jesse began his career at the Southwest Precinct in Burien. He has held a number of operational, investigative and administrative assignments as deputy, detective, sergeant and captain throughout his career. Prior to being promoted to the position of Chief of the Patrol Operations Division, Jesse was the Major of the Southwest Precinct. He has dedicated his career to providing high quality and professional law enforcement services to the residents of unincorporated King County and the contract cities in which he has served. He has long term, well established working relationships within KCSO and with Sheriff’s Office contract partners. During his tenure as the head of the Contracting Unit, Jesse worked with contract partners to problem solve and meet their contract needs. His firsthand experience with contracting includes assignments in the City of Burien Community Policing Unit , Burien Street Crimes Unit, serving as a City of Sammamish patrol sergeant & Acting Chief of Police, and as a captain for the Metro Transit Police.

Jesse enjoys engaging with all members of our King County communities and has an established reputation as a trusted leader with the highest standards of integrity. He is known for leading by example, walk around management and incorporating the principles of transformational leadership. Jesse is also an advocate for continuous organizational improvement.

He has served in a wide array of assignments and has continuously built on his career experience within KCSO. Jesse has served as part of incident command and supervisory oversight for major events. He has managed the Internal Investigations Unit and participated in executive level decisions and policy direction. He has command knowledge and experience with Precinct Operations and Administration. Prior to his promotion to Captain he was a part of the Major Crimes Unit where he was responsible for the supervision of homicides, suspicious deaths, felony assaults, robberies, officer involved shootings, animal abuse, kidnapping, missing persons and juvenile runaway investigations.

Jesse is committed to fair, consistent, and equitable treatment as a leader in the Sheriff’s Office. He is proud to set an example of honesty and integrity for those he follows and those who will follow him. He consistently demonstrates a strong work ethic, positive attitude, sound judgment, strong decision making skills and an open-mind to the ideas of others.

In addition to having a bachelor’s degree and many supervisory & management training classes, Jesse’s law enforcement education includes graduating from the FBI National Academy and the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, School of Police Staff & Command.

In his downtime, Jesse enjoys spending time with family, mountain biking, hiking and weekend getaways.