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Meet Retired Captain Brian Paul Ravert
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Captain Brian Ravert began his law enforcement career in 1979 as a private in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps. He did not anticipate a career in law enforcement and had originally enlisted to be a combat medic. A lay off at his job at an electronics manufacturing company forced him, however, to leave home sooner than expected. The only positions open in the Army at that time were the MP’s, so he told his recruiter, “sure…make me an MP.” It was a decision that he never regretted. He also chose to become an airborne MP and he volunteered for jump school right after basic training. He was assigned to the 118th MP Co. (ABN) at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was later assigned to the Office of the Provost Marshal as a military police investigator, the plain clothes division of the MP Corps.
After leaving the Army, Brian went to work as a police officer for the U.S. Navy, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. In addition to his regular patrol duties, he became a traffic accident investigator and served on the tactical response team. In 1989 a unique policing experience presented itself, with the Amtrak Police Department. Brian began railroad policing with APD as a patrol officer in the Philadelphia Field Office. In 1995 he accepted a promotion to sergeant and was among the first sergeants to be assigned to the newly formed Amtrak Police National Communications Center in Philadelphia, the 9-1-1 center for APD. As a communications supervisor he was responsible for the nationwide call center and radio dispatch operations. He became a communications instructor and soon, the lead instructor, implementing an entirely new formal communications training program. He helped lead the way to full accreditation of the communications center through CALEA earning “flagship status.”
In 2006 he was promoted to captain and placed in command of the department’s training unit. His duties there included research / development of training programs, cost effective delivery, record maintenance and all facets of training for the department; approximately 500 sworn and civilian staff members. He developed and coordinated multi-day, multi-topic/instructor conferences and seminars for the department both in-person and by using teleconference technology. He was later transferred to become Commanding Officer, Mid-Atlantic North Division which included the Philadelphia office where he had originally begun as a patrolman. His division encompassed the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and parts of Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio. In 2014 Brian was transferred back to the Training Unit. He retired in 2019, after nearly 40 years in a career that was not supposed to happen but could not have been better planned.
Brian holds a master’s degree in Defense and Security Services from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA., a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from Bellevue University, and an associates in applied sciences from Delaware County Community College. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command, PERF’s Senior Management Institute for Police and is a member of several professional and fraternal organizations such as IACP, PERF, The American Legion, and The National Association of Veteran Police Officers. He is currently on staff at Temple University’s Police Academy in Ambler, PA and is a certified municipal police instructor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Municipal Police Officers Education and Training Commission (MPOETC). He resides with Margaret, his wife of 28 years in Lancaster County, PA where they raised two children and they now have two grandchildren.