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Robert Wasserman Chairman, Strategic Policy Partnership Robert Wasserman is the Chairman of the Strategic Policy Partnership, a group that assists police and government agencies with policing strategy development, performance improvement, personnel selection, and utilization of.technology and policy development. He recently completed a management audit of the Cincinnati Police Department, and has done numerous reviews of police agencies throughout the United States. He serves as Associate Director of the Senior Management Training Program for the Indian Police Service conducted by the United Kingdom's Cambridge University. And currently is the lead consultant for the Department of Homeland Security on Federal, state and local training initiatives related to combatting violent extremism. He is currently coordinating the implementation of suspicious activity reporting (SARS) in ports throughout the United States U.S. for the office of NSI (National SARS Initiative), under the direction of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, having completed the same for the country's rail system. He has been a facilitator for the Bureau of Justice Assistance of Roundtables in a number of cities focused on building communities of trust and is the author of the monograph "Guidance for Building Communities of Trust" published by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. He previously worked with the Office of the Program Manager (DNI) and DHS/FEMA on refining aspects of the CONOPS for Fusion Centers. He previously served as a Senior Advisor on International Law Enforcement for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement at the U. S. Department of State where among other initiatives, developed and oversaw implementation of the State Department's International Law Enforcement Academies in Bangkok and Roswell, NM. Mr. Wasserman has had an extensive career in law enforcement. He has served as a senior executive in several large American police agencies, including Boston and Houston. He was the Director of Public Safety for the Massachusetts Port Authority, overseeing public safety at Boston's Logan International Airport as well as the Boston area's bridges and harbor. He served as Chief of Staff of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and was sent to Bosnia following the war, serving as both Deputy Commissioner/Operations and Commissioner of the United Nations International Police Task Force where he oversaw the restructuring of that country's police. Over the years, he has consulted with police agencies, cities and universities around the world on issues of strategy, technology, management and performance. His organizational reviews have focused on understanding the vision of the client for its educational or service environment, and developing strategies that will best support that vision in the wide range of public safety and related areas impacting that environment. During the course of his career, he has been the initiator or at the forefront of a number of seminal policing initiatives, including 311 and differential police response, police performance management, neighborhood-oriented policing, the Kansas City Patrol Experiments, Dayton Team Policing, the San Diego Beat Profiling initiative, the Boston Community Disorders strategy and the Police Recruit Training Year. He was a participant in the Executive Sessions on Community Policing at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he served as a Research Fellow for some years. He has served as a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security in facilitating the discussion on intelligence sharing for the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He did his undergraduate study in Sociology at Antioch College in Ohio and his graduate work in Police Administration at Michigan State University. He resides on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and is the former Chair of the Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission.