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William M. Lansdowne
Chief of Police - San Diego Police
Department
Chief
Lansdowne was sworn in as San Diego’s Chief of Police
on August 4, 2003. He presently reports directly to the Deputy
Chief Operating Officer for Public Safety & Homeland Security.
San Diego, with a population of 1.3 million people, is the
seventh largest city in the United States, and second largest
city in California.
Chief Lansdowne began his law enforcement
career in 1966, when he joined the San Jose Police Department.
He rose steadily through the ranks to the position of Assistant
Chief.
In 1994, Chief Lansdowne left San Jose to head
the police department in Richmond, CA, a diverse community
of 93,000. In August 1998, Chief Lansdowne returned to San
Jose as that city’s “top cop.”, and continued
to emphasize community involvement, holding his department
open to public scrutiny. While he was chief, San Jose became
nationally recognized as the safest large city in America.
Over the years, Chief Lansdowne has expanded
his expertise and his reputation as one of the foremost law
enforcement professionals in the country. He is a graduate
of the FBI National Academy and has served on a variety of
state and national boards, including the Major Cities Chiefs
and the National Conference for Community and Justice.
J. Thomas Manger
Chief of Police - Montgomery County
Police Department
Chief
J. Thomas Manger was sworn in as Montgomery County Police
Chief on January 30, 2004. The Montgomery County Department
of Police (MCP) is one of the largest police departments in
the State of Maryland, with more than 1150 sworn and 550 civilian
members serving 950,000 residents in the greater Washington
D.C. Metropolitan Area.
A Maryland native, Chief Manger attended Montgomery
Blair High School and graduated from the University of Maryland
in 1976 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. Chief Manger began
his law enforcement career in 1977 with the Fairfax County
(Virginia) Police Department. He rose through the ranks to
become Chief of Police in 1998. During his tenure in Fairfax
County, Chief Manger received numerous awards including the
Silver Medal of Valor. Chief Manger is credited with reorganizing
and expanding the Fairfax County Police Department’s
Community Policing efforts. His commitment to the highest
ethical standards for policing and his enactment of new policies
to increase departmental accountability earned significant
recognition from the community.
Chief Manger is a graduate of the F.B.I. National
Academy, the National Executive Institute, the Police Executive
Leadership School at the University of Richmond, and the Senior
Executive Institute at the University of Virginia. In 2006,
Chief Manger completed the John F. Kennedy School’s
Program for State and Local government, at Harvard University.
Jody
P. Weis
Superintendent of Police - Chicago Police Department
Jody "J.P." Weis currently
serves as the 54th Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department,
where he assumed command on February 1st, 2008.
Before joining the Chicago
Police Department, Mr. Weis spent 23 years in the Federal
Bureau of Investigations. Upon completion of training at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia in 1985, Mr. Weis was assigned
to the Houston Division, Corpus Christi Resident Agency, where
he investigated reactive crimes. Special Agent Weis was later
transferred to Houston, where he investigated terrorism, narcotics,
and violent crime cases, while also serving as a bomb technician
and on the FBI's Houston SWAT team.
Mr. Weis was appointed Assistant
Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Chicago Field Office
in June 2002. In that capacity, he managed the white collar
crime, organized crime, violent crime, and administrative
programs. During his illustrious career in the FBI, Mr. Weis
also served as Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Office
of Professional Responsibility, SAC over criminal operations
in the Los Angeles Field Office, and as SAC of the Philadelphia
Field Office.
Mr. Weis is a graduate of the
University of Tampa where he earned a degree in Chemistry
in April, 1979. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant
in the U.S. Army, serving in the field of Explosive Ordnance
Disposal. He achieved the rank of Captain prior to his discharge
in December 1984.
William Blair
Chief of Police - Toronto
Police Service
William
Blair was appointed Chief of the Toronto Police Service on
April 26, 2005. The Toronto Police Service employs over 5500
police officers and 2000 civilian employees, the largest municipal
police service in Canada and one of the largest in North America.
The City of Toronto is a vibrant city covering 636 square
kilometres with a diverse population of more than 2,600,000
people.
Chief Blair started his 30 year policing career
as a beat officer in downtown Toronto, and continued with
assignments in drug enforcement, organized crime units, and
major criminal investigations.
As Toronto’s Chief of Police, he oversaw
the development of the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention
Strategy (TAVIS) to combat violent crime. Rapid response teams
are deployed to at-risk neighbourhoods to enhance enforcement
and support local policing initiatives while promoting the
role of Community Response Units and the ‘neighbourhood
police officer’.
Chief Blair holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree
from the University of Toronto with dual disciplines of Economics
and Criminology (1981) and a Certificate in Law Enforcement
Administration from the University of Toronto (1983). He is
a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National
Academy (1990) and the Police Leadership Program from the
University of Toronto, Rodman School of Business Management
(2002) and National Executive Institute (2006). He is a Member
of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) currently
serving as the President of the OACP Executive and Board of
Directors.
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