Charles L. Bryant

Mr. Bryant is currently a consultant and Corporate Security Manager for a large retail company that has twenty-seven hundred stores in forty-one states. In that position he develops training programs, is directly responsible for supervising over thirty security officers, and manages and monitors security guards and contracts for the twenty-seven hundred stores in forty-one states. His career in the Memphis Police Department spanned twenty-five years of varied assignments, where he rose to the rank of Major. As Executive Major in the West Precinct he was responsible for managing shift supervisors, scheduling training, and discipline for one hundred and fifty personnel. He was also responsible for implementing the community awareness program, facility maintenance, and budget. As a lieutenant, he served in the department's Tactical Unit, Organized Crime Unit, Vice and Narcotics Unit, and Special Investigations Section.

Colonel Patten has over twenty-six years of service with the Baltimore Police Department. She possesses extensive patrol, investigative, and managerial experience and is the first woman to earn and work every civil service rank in the department. As the Chief of the Research and Development Bureau, she commands the Planning and Research Division, Grant Compliance Division, and Special Projects Division. She also serves as the agency's domestic violence coordinator. She has developed an internationally recognized police-involved domestic violence policy. Her work in this area resulted in the Baltimore Police Department's designation as a national demonstration center by the U.S. Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Office, and the award of nearly one million dollars in a federal grant. She also served in many field units, including an assignment as the Commander of the Northern District. The Northern District contained over one hundred thousand citizens and had a police compliment of two hundred officers.