Charles Reynolds

A career law enforcement professional with over forty years experience, Charles served for over twenty six years as a Chief of Police in a number of New England counties. He also served as Special Assistant to the Director of Public Safety for the Navajo Nation.

Charles is currently a police management consultant and has provided consulting services and technical assistance to municipalities in seventeen states. He currently serves as an independent auditor for the United States Department of Justice reviewing and evaluating police performance in states or municipalities that have been alledged to have a pattern or practice of civil rights problems. In 1998-99, Charles was engaged by the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council to evaluate the effectiveness of its' community policing instruction model. Recently, he worked with the Vera Institute of Criminal Justice in New York on the development of a "best police practices" project.

A Past President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and former Commissioner and Vice Chairman of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), Charles served on President Reagan's Law Enforcement Task Force in 1980, on the FBI National Crime Centre Policy Advisory Board (1985-1991) and on the U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Technology Advisory Council (1987-1997).

Charles' key areas of responsibility as part of the evaluation team will be public order policing, policing in a peaceful society and police size, composition and recruitment.