Gary Tuggle

Gary Tuggle (born 1963 or 1964) is an American police officer and former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who served as acting commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department from 2018 to 2019.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Tuggle served in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) in the 1980s and joined the DEA in 1992. He was an agent in Baltimore, Bridgetown, Chicago, and Miami. After serving as the DEA attaché to the Embassy of the United States, Port of Spain, he worked at DEA headquarters. He was appointed assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Division, managing the Baltimore office, in 2012, and head of the Philadelphia Field Division in 2015. He rejoined the BPD in 2018 as a deputy commissioner under Darryl De Sousa. Tuggle succeeded De Sousa as acting commissioner on May 11, 2018, when he was placed on paid suspension after an indictment for tax evasion. As acting commissioner, Tuggle suspended an officer who had been filmed assaulting a man, oversaw the implementation of the BPD's ShotSpotter system, and broke ground on a new headquarters for the BPD's mounted police. He announced that he would not seek to become permanent commissioner in October, saying he did not have sufficient commitment; Michael S. Harrison was appointed to replace him in January 2019 and sworn in two months later.