Fred Lau
Fred Lau | |||||||||||
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| Born | Fred Harry Lau June 26, 1949 San Francisco, California, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | City College of San Francisco San Francisco State University (B.A.) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉百安 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘百安 | ||||||||||
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Fred Harry Lau (born June 26, 1949) is a former Chief of Police for San Francisco, having served from 1996–2002. He was the first Asian American to ever hold that position, and has been called the first Chinese-American to lead the police in any major American city. In 2013, he became the TSA Federal Security Director of the San Francisco International Airport.