Ryan Perlongo

Provide overall leadership of the Evidence-based Training and Innovation Section, which includes supervising the development of the unit’s training, technical assistance, research, and analytical products.

• Coordinate and manage interagency projects relating to the Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) initiative or other evidence-based initiatives in the unit’s purview.

• Develop and update assessment and analytical tools to assist local jurisdictions with evidence-based policing strategies implementation performance.

• Manage the development of innovative, evidence-based training curriculum for law enforcement.

• Develop and support new research projects and innovations in the field.

• Monitor local crime trends and conduct inquiries on behalf of the Governor’s Office and DCJS regarding assigned jurisdictions.

• Promote all the Governor’s criminal justice initiatives, along with the services of DCJS, to local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies.

Police Executive Leadership Program

• Presented by the School of Public and Global Affairs, the ELP was designed with the input of law enforcement professionals to provide an intensive 10-week program focused on critical, evidence- based leadership training through effective, ethical, and technical competence and skills building.

Responsible for hands-on strategic counsel to New York State law enforcement agencies focusing on evidence-based policing practices, community trust building, and implementing reform and reinvention collaboratives

This role included the design of portfolio-specific collaborative violence prevention projects tailored to local culture, legislation, and priorities, fostering peer learning partnerships across agencies, and building the technical capacity of local stakeholders to implement, measure, and sustain strategies along with management of corresponding research projects statewide.

• Chief consultant for the Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE)grant which provides $36 million of direct funding,to program management and strategy development for the 20 jurisdictions that account for 81% of violent crime outside New York City
• Agency lead for the development of Evidence-Based Policing white papers and data-driven statistical evaluative tools (Self Assessment Tools SATs, and Implementation Assessment Tools IAT)

Provided direct oversight to the training, operations, and emergency management divisions of the University Police at SUNY Dutchess. Served as the departmental accreditation administrator responsible for policy and data management via Lexipol Data Management Systems and Omnigo Computer-Aided Dispatch, and ACADIS training software.

• Created and Co-Chaired the Public Safety Advisory Committee to discuss solutions to concerns within the local and campus communities
• Director of University Critical Incident Response Team
• Director of Environmental Health and Safety

Served as highest ranking sworn member of department with operation oversight over 75 Public Safety and civilian staff and a $2.5 million operational budget

• Established and maintained the Canvas Learning Management System for officer in- service and professional development training
• Coordinated the Field Training Officer and Supervisor Training programs and PA Act 120/235 Certifications
• Public Safety Representative of the University Critical Incident Response Team responsible for drafting, revision, and execution of emergency management plans.

Evidence-Based Policing Programming, Responsible for literature review, instruction, and curriculum development for state-sponsored violence reduction, problem analysis, and organizational development training

Topics included: Hot Spots Policing, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Focused Deterrence, Procedural Justice, Implicit Bias, Street Outreach, and Problem Oriented Policing.

• Trained over 1000 law enforcement officers (statewide)on various evidence-based policing strategies
• Selected as one out of12subject matter experts (SMEs) to create the procedural justice and implicit bias training curriculum recently certified by NYS Municipal Police Training Council

• Coordinated Officer Training Program, up-skilling NYS peace officers and civilian personnel in areas of community policing, patrol operations, tactics, policy, and procedure. Leveraged blackboard learning management systems to schedule remedial, professional development, and in- house/in-service training sessions, while updating records and memorandums Developed recruits through comprehensive training and curriculum at the New York City Public Safety Training Academy.
• Drafted new state approved officer and instructor field training manuals
• Improved officer performance by designing and rolling out custom reality-based, classroom, and tabletop training exercises
• Delivered the first Procedural Justice training at the City University of New York.

• Served as a guest lecturer for the Department of Criminal Justice and the Academyof Leadership and Service at Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Conducted workshops on Organizational Leadership, Active Shooter Response, and Community Emergency Response

Supervised 85 law enforcement and 20 civilian staff at the largest college in the City University system. Structured operational plans, managed the daily crime database, and conducted professional development training. Organized two Community Outreach Units: the Academy of Leadership and Service and the Community Emergency Response Team

• Revised and Developed Campus Emergency Response and Continuity of Operations Plans
• Manhattan Community College ranked Safest Large Campus in New York State.

Assistant Coordinator- Residential Safety Program
•Responsible for operational supervision of 75 civilian campus safety support staff that conducted patrol, dispatch, access control, CCTV surveillance, student escort, fire safety, event management, and emergency management support services.