Advisory Board - Mario Molina

Mario Molina is fifteen year veteran police officer with the San Francisco Police Department. He currently holds the rank of sergeant. During his fifteen years career as a law enforcement officer, he has come to specialize in the investigation of gangs, particular Latin gangs.

Molina was assigned to Mission Station from late 1995 to roughly October of 2003, as a police officer at Mission Station; he investigated hundreds of gang related crimes as a plainclothes officer. In 2003, he was transferred to the San Francisco Police Department Gang Task Force where he continued to investigate Latino gang related crimes for five years. During his assignment to GTF, he was a major contributor to the first Latino Gang Civil Injunction against the Norteno criminal street gang in the City and County of San Francisco. In 2008, officer Molina was promoted to the rank of sergeant and has now returned to Mission Station where he is one two supervisors in the Street Crime Unit.

Sgt. Molina is a POST certified instructor for the San Francisco Police Department Regional Academy. He has trained hundreds of new San Francisco police officers in the field of Latin gang culture, tactics, and trends. In addition, Sgt. Molina draws from his 5 years of experience as a counselor at the San Francisco Youth Guidance Center and two years as a probation officer for the San Francisco Adult Probation Department prior to becoming a police officer in 1994.

Sgt. Molina has a Master degree of Science in Marriage, Family, Child Counseling (MFCC) and a Bachelor of Arts in Child Developmental Psychology from the San Francisco State University.