About Craig Hunter
Integrity, leadership, and professionalism are the hallmarks of Anaheim Deputy Chief Craig Hunter’s impressive thirty-year record of law enforcement – a record that includes nearly twenty years of police management and supervision.
One of the most respected members of Orange County’s law enforcement community,
Chief Hunter oversees all daily police operations of California’s tenth largest city, including the department’s nearly eight-hundred full time and volunteer members and a $120 million budget.
Through policies developed under Chief Hunter’s tenure, Anaheim has earned national acclaim for homeland security and community policing, and the city is recognized as the safest among California’s ten largest cities. Chief Hunter has also implemented numerous cost saving procedures that have streamlined spending, eliminated waste, and created more efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Chief Hunter holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Chapman University. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy, Command College, POST Leadership Institute, and the Delinquency Control Institute at University of Southern California (USC). Additionally, Chief Hunter holds a community college teaching credential, and he has lectured and been published on topics such as tourist policing, crisis management, terrorism, and leadership.
Chief Hunter began his law enforcement career at the age of nineteen as a reserve police officer for the City of Garden Grove. In 1982, Chief Hunter joined the Anaheim Police Department, where over the next twenty-seven years he served in a variety of specialized assignments including jail 
operations, personnel, budget, internal affairs, narcotics, gangs, career criminal apprehension, SWAT, robbery, labor relations, aviation, and special events.
Craig and Lisa Hunter live in Yorba Linda and have four children. Chief Hunter is a volunteer Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America and has two sons who are Eagle Scouts, one of whom is also a fellow police officer. Chief Hunter also spends his weekends officiating high school and college football games.
