Robert Wasserman is Chairman of PSComm, LLC, the
Maryland-based law enforcement management and strategic policy firm
assisting government agencies in developing new operational
strategies.
Mr. Wasserman also serves as Senior Advisor on
International Law Enforcement for the United States Department of
State. In that capacity, he has been involved in the development
and evaluation of international law enforcement academies
throughout the world, as well as development of policy on
international policing issues.
Mr. Wasserman previously served as Deputy
Commissioner and Commissioner of the United Nations International
Police Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he commanded
policing operations of the 2400 member international police
organization following the Dayton Peace Accords in 1996 and 1997.
Prior to his assignment to Bosnia, Mr. Wasserman served as Chief of
Staff of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a
cabinet level agency, from 1994 to 1996.
Mr. Wasserman has served as a senior police
executive in a number of law enforcement agencies, including
Director of Public Safety for the Massachusetts Port Authority
(1988-90), responsible for Boston's airport, harbor and bridges,
Chief of Staff for the Houston Police Department (1982-85), and
Director of Training and Personnel and later Assistant Commissioner
for Operations of the Boston Police Department (1973-78).
During his career, Mr. Wasserman has served as a
consultant to numerous police agencies in the United States and
Europe. He drafted the community policing strategy for the New York
City Police Department, and has conducted organizational
assessments of police agencies in Baltimore, Atlanta, San
Francisco, Richmond, Washington, DC, among others.
As a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy
School of Government, he was a convenor of the Executive Sessions
on Community Policing that established the modern concept of
community policing as an operational strategy.
Mr. Wasserman did his undergraduate work in
Sociology at Antioch College in Ohio and this graduate work at
Michigan State University in police administration.
He lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the
island of Martha's Vineyard, where he has served as Chairman of the
Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission.
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