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Advisory Council

The New Jersey Public Safety Accreditation Coalition has an established Advisory Council, which serves in an advisory capacity to the Coalition’s Board of Directors. The Advisory Council is a distinguished group of elite law enforcement executives, professors, business executives, and public safety executives who have been appointed by the Coalition’s Board of Directors to provide advice on current and future issues as well as direction and priorities of the Coalition. Membership on the council is extremely exclusive. Each member is recognized by their peers as a leader of leaders in their field, as a strong supporter of public safety accreditation and professional excellence, and have unwavering morals, values, and ethical decision making. The Advisory Council is led by the council president who acts as the group’s collective voice.

Advisory Council Members

Council President
Lt. Colonel Frank E. Rodgers, ret. (NJSP)

Frank E. Rodgers retired as the Deputy Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police in 2007 at the rank of Lt. Colonel after twenty-five years of service. While serving in the second highest ranking position in the largest police department in the State of New Jersey, he led the Investigations Branch which consisted of in excess of 900 detectives, analysts and scientists assigned to 57 different units with an annual budget of in excess of seventy-five (75) million dollars. A strong advocate of police professionalism, strategic planning and accountability, he initiated and directed a complete restructuring of the organization’s investigative assets predicated on the principles of “Intelligence Led Policing”. During his tenure as the Deputy Superintendent of Investigations, he directed the development of a manual on Intelligence Led Policing which was published by the Manhattan Institute and is currently being adopted by the United States Department of Justice as a model for conducting law enforcement operations.

The youngest person ever to become a New Jersey State Trooper and the youngest Trooper ever promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, Rodgers established a reputation for reengineering commands, revitalizing morale and improving performance. During his tenure with the State Police he served as a patrol trooper, undercover detective, homicide detective, Commander of the Internal Affairs Bureau, Troop Commander where he oversaw a patrol force of 400 troopers who were responsible for all policing in thirty-seven (37) municipalities, 250 miles of Interstate Highways, the Atlantic City International Airport and security at the state’s only three nuclear generating facilities. He culminated his career serving his final two years as the Deputy Superintendent in charge of all investigations conducted by the State Police.

Following his career with the State Police, he was appointed as the first Director of the newly formed New Jersey State Park Police in the Department of Environmental Protection. During his one year tenure in that position, he developed the force of 100 officers who were responsible for protecting the eighteen (18) million annual visitors to the state’s fifty-one (51) parks into a New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police accredited and CALEA (Commission on the Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies) nationally recognized agency.

In 2008, Lt. Colonel (Ret.), Rodgers formed his own private consulting company, The Rodgers Group, LLC, and is currently working extensively on investigative projects and law enforcement enhancement initiatives. Lt. Colonel Rodgers (Ret.) holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education from Seton Hall University is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and holds a top secret security clearance. He is the co-author of a comprehensive published history of the New Jersey State Police and is the recipient of the organization’s highest award, the 1990 Trooper of the Year, for his undercover investigative work. He is also a Certified Assessor for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).

Council Vice President
Commissioner Robert Greenlaw (CALEA)

Robert Greenlaw is a Managing Member of Public Safety Consultants LLC and also serves as Secretary on the Executive Board for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Commissioner Greenlaw has over forty years of public safety and emergency management experience, beginning in 1967 as a volunteer fire fighter and worked his way up to being named Chief of Ridgewood Emergency Services in the Village of Ridgewood, New Jersey. He then went on to be the Director of the Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch in Ridgewood, establishing the first joint municipal public safety dispatch center in northern New Jersey, and leading that agency to become the first to achieve CALEA Public Safety Communications Accreditation in 1999. Following his retirement from Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch, Commissioner Greenlaw he became Chief Operating Officer of the Core Products Division for Enforsys, Inc., in Roseland, New Jersey.

In 2006 Commissioner Greenlaw left Enforsys to form his consulting firm, Public Safety Consultants, LLC. During this time he was named interim director of Blaine County Emergency Communications in Hailey, Idaho, under a consulting contract. He oversaw the consolidation of police, sheriff, fire and EMS communications for all municipalities in the county, and helped design and equip a new communications center. Following the completion of this project, several years ahead of schedule, he left to take his current position as Director for the Delaware County Emergency Communications, Delaware County, Ohio. Commissioner Greenlaw is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Bergen County, New Jersey.