Assistant Chief Of Police
East Wenatchee, Washington, United States
Initially recruited as patrol officer, promoted to Sergeant then to second-in-command of 24-member city police department. Directs daily operations, ensures compliance with current best-practice policing procedures and standards, develops policies and procedures, oversees staff training and certification. Manages $3.5M budget and 25-vehicle fleet.• Served as Accreditation Manager for WA Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs; restructured department according to industry standards, reducing liability and enhancing employee accountability.• Enhanced employee recruiting, training, and onboarding by standardizing field training according to industry standards, avoiding costly lawsuit, cutting need for re-training, and increasing staff productivity.• Re-established friendly relations with regional law enforcement agencies after years of distrust, improving collaboration, reducing violent crime by 17% between 2017 and 2018 per FBI UCR, and decreasing service call requests by 9.5%.• Served as Director of Networking until full-time IT professional hired in 2019 in addition to police leadership duties, maintaining state-of-art police IT network over 12 years. Implemented state-of-art phone and security camera systems.• Mentored law enforcement staff to achieve beyond expectations; helped patrolman disappointed by lack of advancement achieve Sergeant designation; enabled patrolman with medical issue to gain place on drug task force where he excelled.• Restructured paper-based scheduling system with inefficient overtime management, directing RFP and bid process, and overseeing implementation to improve scheduling efficiency, reduce overtime costs, and cut labor requirements.• Attended NW Command College and earned Mid-Level and Executive-Level Management certifications from the Criminal Justice Training Commission, 2018.
