Irvin R. Irving is the husband of Connie Irving, the father of George Irving, a Los Angeles city councilman, and a former Deputy Chief and Assistant Chief with the Los Angeles Police Department. He joined the LAPD in 1955, and considers himself to be "a slow-moving, careful policeman" who does "not like shortcuts" and refuses to be spoken to with abbreviations (detesting, for instance, the use of the shorthand "FBI" in place of the Federal Bureau of Investigation).