丹尼斯·里尔

I retired as detective commander of the Lincoln (R.I.) Police Department in 2004 after 20 years of service. I then returned to full-time military duty as a member of the Rhode Island Air National Guard, where I retired (again) from the U.S. 空军/ R.I. Air National Guard in 2015 as director of staff with the rank of lieutenant colonel after 33 years of active and reserve duty.

During my law enforcement career, I served in numerous positions including patrol officer, 巡逻警官, patrol lieutenant, detective and detective commander. I also served as the department’s training officer, firearms instructor and public information officer, and was the acting deputy chief in 2002.

I have remained professionally active in the law enforcement field since leaving active service. I have been an adjunct professor at 亚洲博彩平台排名 since 2006 and currently teach the online version of Cultural Competency for Justice Systems, a course I developed in 2013 and which is now a core course. I am also an adjunct instructor with Roger Williams University's Justice Systems Training and Research Institute. 自2002年以来, I have developed and presented workshops in the areas of leadership and management, strategic communications, public information, instructor development and organizational development to more than 2,000 New England law enforcement leaders.

我在R服役.I. Air National Guard, both in a traditional reserve capacity (1982-2004) and as a full-time member (2004-2015) until mandatory retirement in 2015. Among many assignments, I was originally an enlisted air surveillance and warning operator (ground radar) until being commissioned a second lieutenant in 1987. I then served various roles as an air battle management officer (ground radar) until 1997 before assuming command of the 143rd Aerial Port Squadron until 2007. I was next assigned as the joint public affairs officer (Army and Air) before being selected as the Air National Guard's director of staff/R.I. National Guard joint deputy chief of staff, my final assignment.

In 2018, my wife and I moved to Tampa, Florida, allegedly to retire. Shortly upon arriving, 然而, I served as an investigator and hearing officer with the Florida Commission on Offender Review for two years, where I provided due process rights to parole violators in Hillsborough and Pasco counties. In 2020, I decided that it's never too late to pursue my dream of teaching in secondary education and obtained an educator's certificate in social sciences (6-12) from the Florida Department of Education. I am currently the director of the Criminal Justice Academy at Fivay High School in Hudson, Florida.

I am a graduate of the U.S. Air Force's Air War College with a post-graduate diploma in strategic studies, the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Information School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's homeland security senior leadership development program.

I am a proud and passionate veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. I am obsessively dedicated to golf and guitars, having developed mild-to-moderate competence in each, as well as ice hockey, a sport I have played for more than 45 years and coached at my hometown high school (Lincoln, R.I.) and Rhode Island College for 25 years.