Francisco Pardo (born 13 February 1962) is a Spanish politician serving as Director-General of the Police since June 1, 2018.

Pardo is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and he has previously served as the 8th Secretary of State for Defence from 2004 to 2007.

In 2012, Pardo announced he was leaving politics resigning to his positions as member of parliament and as Provincial Secretary of the Socialist Party in the Province of Albacete.

[5] He returned to politics on June 30, 2018 when the Minister of Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, appointed him as Director-General of the Police.

[6] In April 2020, he was admitted to a Madrid hospital after testing positive for COVID-19,[7] thus joining his number two, the Deputy Director of Operations José Ángel González Jiménez, who had tested positive on March 31.