August 20,2010 

Consistent with LEIU’s mission, LEIU leaders and agency executives continue to provide leadership and promote professionalism in criminal intelligence through participation in the Criminal IntelligenceCoordinating Council (CICC).  The CICC, formally established in May 2004, provides advice to the U.S. Attorney General on the best use of criminal intelligence to keep our country safe. The advice of members of the CICC has also been sought by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Director of National Intelligence, members of Congress, and other representatives of local, tribal, state, and federal government agencies.  Our current LEIU General Chairman Van Godsey, Assistant Director, Division of Drug and Crime Control, Missouri State Highway Patrol sits on the CICC as a representative for LEIU.  Other CICC memberswho are from LEIU member agencies include: 

*William Berger, Chief, Palm Bay (FL) Police Department

*Ronald E. Brooks, Director, Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Current CICC Chairman

*Craig Buehler, Chief, Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence, California Department of Justice

*Michael Downing, Deputy Chief, Los Angeles (CA) Police Department 

*Joseph “Rick” Fuentes, Colonel, New Jersey State Police

*Vernon Keenan, Director, Georgia Bureau of Investigation

*James McDermond, Assistant Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

*Craig Steckler, Chief, Fremont (CA) Police Department

*Kenneth Tucker, Assistant Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement 

For more information about the CICC, visit

http://www.it.ojp.gov/cicc

http://www.iir.com/global/council.htm