Teal Metts | Director

Teal’s family has been part of the Glendale community since 1926, which ignited his passion for the area’s history. He was born in Glendale and raised in the Glenoaks Canyon and Woodbury neighborhoods. Being an area native, he took an intern job with the Glendale Police Department in 1995 and joined the department two years later. Over the last 29 years he has held various roles and ranks and is currently the department’s supervisor of the Training Bureau.

For the past 16 years, Teal’s passion for history has led him to volunteer his time as the police department historian, extensively researching different facets of the department’s history and meticulously preserving written records and physical artifacts for future gener­ations. In 2018, he built and continues to curate, the Glendale Police Museum which offers insights into the department’s 118-year history to employees, community members, and visitors. Recently he located the unmarked grave of the area’s first fallen officer, fundraised to have a marker made, and wrote a book detailing the officer’s life and the journey to revive and preserve this hero’s story.