✔ Led the inspections and discipline of 80+sworn and non-sworn employees including 3 lieutenants, 8 sergeants, 8 Crime Prevention Civilians, and 61 sworn officers.✔ Served as the Fayetteville Police Liaison for the following school boards: Board of Education, Pine Forest High School, and South View High School.✔ Collaborated with community leaders and business owners to provide safe environments for the youth to learn and be mentored.

✔ Leader over all training needs of the department based on North Carolina State requirements and specific departmental goals.✔ Served as Chairperson for the Training Advisory Committee and the “BluePoint” (in-line learning) process. ✔ Oversaw 3 policy academies per year resulting in 50-60 new officers graduating annually.✔ Served as the departmental liaison to the State, Federal, and private educational agencies regarding training collaborations, needs and assistance.✔ Implemented the “Diversity Recruiting Campaign” to increase the number of minority applicants resulting in the improvement diversity recruitment efforts by facilitating community engagement via advertisements, education and opportunities for collaboration.✔ Implemented the Training Center Newsletter that is dispersed to all sworn and non-sworn employees to provide information on upcoming courses, workshops, and classes that were dedicated to career enhancement and improved quality of life.

✔ Supported the Chief of Police by planning, directing, coordinating, and evaluating the overall operation of the Chief’s office, performed a variety of advanced professional duties and analytical projects and relieved the Chief of administrative details.✔ Led the collaborative commitment and served as liaison for the Fayetteville Police Department with the Department of Justice/Office of Justice Programs Diagnostic Center. I assisted the team from the Diagnostic Center in quickly established themselves as trustworthy, by facilitating over 80 interviews with members of our community.✔ Led the collaborative commitment and served as liaison of the Fayetteville Police Department with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the National Police Research Platform, which was a long- term project designed to collect systemic data about police officers, deputy sheriffs, civilians, and organizations over time and to establish benchmarks for excellence in American policing. ✔ Received funding from the National Institute of Justice and for the National Police Research Platform and created an avenue for the platform to become a source for scientific knowledge and lead to improvements in police organizations that will directly benefit law enforcement personnel and the communities they serve.

Supervisor over:-Homicide Unit-Special Victims Unit-Cyber Crimes Unit-Fayetteville Family Justice Center✔ Supervised the Homicide Unit, the Cyber Crimes Unit, Special Victims Unit, as well as, the Family Justice Center.✔ Led the implementation and establishment of the “Fayetteville Family Justice Center."✔ Prepared articles of incorporation, agency guidelines, memorandums of understanding and required NC Treasury documentation to establish the center as a 501 3(c) nonprofit resulting in the Office of Violence Against Women declaring the center's model as a "best practice in the field of domestic violence intervention and prevention services.✔ Pioneered a family Justice center that served people in the community who had been victims of sexual assault and domestic violence and offered a place for them to report and gather resources, shelter, social services, housing, etc.

✔ Managed 3 sergeants and their teams (40 employees), including establishing and enforcing performance policies.

Office of Professional Standards and Inspections (Internal Affairs)✔ Identified witnesses and collected statements to gather information and pursue remedies for violations of legal standards.

Patrol/First Line Supervisor

✔ Handled 20 - 30 cases and incidents for minors a month involving sexual abuse and worked to reduce and eliminate repeated offenses by working directly with the youth during the abuse incidents.✔ Implemented de-escalation tactics with arrested suspects and later commended by a suspect regarding positive engagement.✔ Trained 20+ new detectives and patrol officers interested in the detective division for 4-6 weeks.

Assigned as the Sheriff to a middle school with 100s of students providing services including informal grief counseling, connecting abuse victims to needed resources, and attending court hearings for student specific cases.

Served the general public to ensure the safety of its citizens, operated as a social worker, and attended court appearances for traffic violations and crimes.

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