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The event will feature four police leaders discussing ways in which their departments have worked to improve relationships with their communities. Topics will include citizen advisory groups, transparency and accountability, hiring practices, increasing diversity within police departments and alternative response models.

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The panelists will discuss their respective departments’ work in these areas and attendees will be able to ask questions.

Panelists will include:

Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Jr.
Commissioner Bard was appointed police commissioner for the City of Cambridge Police Department in August 2017. He joined the department after serving as chief of police and director of public safety for the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Police Department. Under his leadership at the fourth largest Housing Authority in the country, significant crime reductions were realized and relations drastically improved between Housing Authority residents and the police, while citizen complaints declined and a defunct Police Advisory Board was reestablished.

He had previously served in numerous positions with the Philadelphia Police Department, including Police Inspector, and Police Captain for the 22nd District which is the largest police district in the city for assigned personnel. There, the District piloted many crime-reduction strategies, including Philadelphia CeaseFire Cure Violence, data-driven efforts, Summer Foot Beat Initiative, Focused Deterrence Policing and Intelligence-led policing efforts.

Northeastern University Director of Public Safety and Deputy Chief of Police Ruben Galindo
Director Galindo joined the NUPD in January 2015 as the deputy chief of police, leading all police operations, and was later promoted to director of public safety. He began his career with the Miami-Dade Police Department in 1982, attaining several ranks during his tenure. Some of his commands included Captain of the Liberty City District, Commander of the Miami International Airport and Director of the Miami-Dade Training Institute.

The NUPD is a full-service police department with over 100 employees, more than 70 of which are sworn law enforcement officers. The department is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and through the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission (MPAC). The department has also partnered with the Cambridge Police Department to run its own police academy through the Municipal Police Training Committee (MPTC).

Marquette University Police Chief Edith Hudson
Chief Hudson leads over 80 public safety professionals of the Marquette University Police Department. She is the former assistant chief of police for the Milwaukee Police Department, serving for 25 years in progressive leadership roles before her retirement from the department in 2015.

Chief Hudson is a current board member of NAMI Greater Milwaukee; an active member of Alverno College’s vanguard society, a group of professional women who provide mentorship and other support to alumna, current students and administration; and serves as co-chair of the Near West Side Partners safety working group. She has also been involved in the Alverno College’s Servant Leadership Roundtable for several years.

University of Massachusetts Amherst Police Chief Tyrone Parham
Chief Parham was named to the position of assistant vice chancellor/chief of police at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in January 2016. He oversees 62 sworn officers on a college campus consisting of over 30,000 students and 51 residence halls. UMass Amherst PD is a full-service police department that is accredited through CALEA and MPAC.

Parham joined the Pennsylvania State University Police Department in 1989 as a student security officer. In 1993 he was hired as a patrol officer and rose through the ranks, holding the positions of detective, lieutenant, assistant chief and deputy chief before his appointment as chief. From 2011-2016, Chief Parham served as chief of police at Penn State. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Class #244 and PERF’s Senior Management Institute for Police Class #68.

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