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In October, 2009, Robert Warshaw was selected to serve as the Independent Monitor and Police Performance Solutions, LLC, to provide the team to monitor the Consent Judgments involving the United States Department of Justice, the City of Detroit, Michigan and the Detroit Police Department (DPD).
The PPS LLC Team provides monitoring of compliance with all 201 substantive and procedural requirements of the two consent judgments which are currently in place. Our independent monitoring team is composed of law enforcement and corrections professionals of highest integrity who possess recognized subject matter expertise and a wealth of actual monitoring experience. We combine the assets of top law enforcement, corrections and criminal justice professionals with solid track records of accomplishment in affecting organizational change and significant management improvements.
Leadership of the Detroit Monitoring Team is provided by the three PPS LLC partners.
Chief Robert Warshaw serves as Monitor.
Chief Charles Reynolds coordinates use of force reviews.
Joseph R. Wolfinger coordinates training reviews.
Members of the team represent a wide variety of law enforcement and corrections experience and expertise. The team includes:
Division Chief (ret) Rachel M. Burgess
Chief (ret) Eduardo Gonzalez recently concluded his successful tenure as Independent Monitor for the MOA between Prince George's County Police Department and the USDOJ. He began his law enforcement career in 1965, with the Miami-Dade Police Department in Miami, Florida. He rose through the ranks and in 1986 was appointed Deputy Director of the agency, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. In 1992, Chief Gonzalez was appointed Chief of Police in Tampa, Florida, and in 1993 he was appointed Director of the United States Marshals Service by the President.
John M. Klofas, Ph.D is a professor of the Criminal Justice Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester New York. He received his doctorate from SUNY-Albany. Dr. Klofas worked for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and taught at Illinois State University prior to coming to Rochester. He served on the Prince Georges County, MD, Police Department Monitor Team.
Commander (ret) John M. Girvin retired from the Rochester NY Police Department where he enjoyed an extensive career. For six years his command of the Inspection Services Diivision of the Department included Internal Affairs. He is a qualified police instructor in the NYcertified to teach in many topical areas including Managing Criminal Investigations, Performance Evaluation, Counseling and Discipline, Roles of the Supervisor, Pursuit Policy, Labor Relations/Negotiations, and Leadership, Ethics and Integrity He has served as a CALEA evaluator and is currently a magistrate in the NY state system.
Chief (ret) Melvin C. High began his law enforcement career as a Metropolitan Washington Police Officer in 1969 and, prior to his retirement in 1993, worked his way through its ranks serving in several executive positions, including Inspector, Deputy Chief and Assistant Chief. He then served as Chief of the Norfolk, VA, Police Department, for ten years where he introduced strategies that revised recruitment and retention and brought the Department to full staffing while increasing the number of women, African Americans and civilian professional staff. Chief High served as Chief of the Prince George's County Police Department from 2003 to 2009 and oversaw the successful execution of its Memorandum of Agreement with the USDOJ. His insights into the Independent Monitoring process are well founded and based on his first-hand experience.
Chief (ret) Bill R. Riggs enjoyed a twenty three year career in the City of Miami Police Department where he retired with the rank of Colonel. He then served as the Chief of the West Palm Beach Florida Police Department for ten years and finished his active duty career as second in command of the Palm Beach County Florida Sheriff’s Department.
Lt. Colonel (ret) John R. Brown, who recently retired from the Pennsylvania State Police as Deputy Commissioner, where he had executive authority over the Department’s Bureau of Integrity and Professional Standards, Department Discipline Office, Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Heritage Affairs Office, Office of Risk Management/Early Intervention Program, Bureau of Training and Education, Bureau of Human Resources, Member Assistance Program and Recruitment and Special Services Office, joined the team in May, 2010.
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