Sarah Creighton, retired Assistant Chief of Police-City of San Diego, Director, Law Enforcement Services, Institutes of Health Sarah Creighton is a retired San Diego Assistant Chief of Police. She began her career in 1984 as a patrol officer and worked a variety of patrol, investigative, and administrative assignments, including training and leadership development. As a captain, she was selected to create the Police Department’s first wellness unit. The San Diego Police Department’s Wellness Unit is recognized as the most innovative and effective unit of its kind and serves as a model for other agencies nationwide. The Unit received the 2016 Destination Zero Award, a national award for innovative officer wellness initiatives. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and a master’s in human behavior. She coordinated the California POST Management Course for the Government Training Agency in San Diego until 2022 and now regularly moderates an officer wellness panel to educate police managers on employee care. She also volunteers for COPLINE, an international 24-hour crisis hotline for law enforcement. She has participated in numerous work groups with police wellness experts, including the University of Chicago NORC, in the development and analysis of an officer safety and wellness survey and served as a technical advisor for the Police Executive Research Forum. She is a contributing author to several journal articles, including Bruised Badges: The Moral Risks of Police Work, and A Call for Officer Wellness and New Directions in Police Academy Training: A Call to Action. She also co-authored a chapter in the book entitled POWER: Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience, providing practical recommendations and considerations for police executives on how to build a wellness program.