Jane Perlov

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| name = Jane Perlov

| birth_date = 1956

| birth_place = Bayside, Queens

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| occupation = Law Enforcement Officer

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| title = Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety

| governor = Paul Cellucci
Jane M. Swift

| term_start = 1998

| term_end = 2001

| predecessor = Kathleen O'Toole

| successor = James Jajuga

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Jane Perlov is an American law enforcement official who served as Chief of the Raleigh, North Carolina Police Department from 2001 to 2007 and Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety from 1998 to 2001.

From 1981{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/style/vows-jane-perlov-and-robert-maas.html | work=The New York Times | title=VOWS;Jane Perlov and Robert Maas | date=11 February 1996}} to 1998 Perlov was a member of the New York City Police Department. In 1994 she was promoted to captain and put in charge of the NYPD's 20th Precinct.{{cite news|last=Ojito|first=Mirta|title=For a Female Officer, New Job Is Another First|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/nyregion/for-a-female-officer-new-job-is-another-first.html|accessdate=22 April 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 7, 1997}} A year she was promoted to Inspector and moved to the 30th Precinct, located in Harlem.{{cite news|last=Waldman|first=Amy|title=Female Detective Commander Takes Job in Massachusetts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/23/nyregion/female-detective-commander-takes-job-in-massachusetts.html|accessdate=22 April 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 23, 1998}} In 1997 she was promoted to Chief of Detectives in Queens, becoming the first woman to command an entire borough of detectives.