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Meet Retired Assistant Chief Rodney Parks
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Rodney Parks is a former Assistant Chief of Police with the Metropolitan Police Department, with thirty-one years in law enforcement and serving numerous operational, investigative and programmatic units of the Department. His law enforcement career includes assignments in patrol, traffic, disciplinary unit, training academy, homicide branch lieutenant and commander, commander of criminal investigations and assistant chief of professional responsibility. He is an Executive Fellow for the Police Foundation.
He has consulted with various government agencies and private companies led numerous projects to analyze and improve law enforcement operations and performance. Recently, working with the D.C. Forensic Sciences Division to develop a minor degree college program in firearms identification.
Mr. Parks has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Management from the Johns Hopkins University, as well as a graduate of the FBINA Academy 201st session.
Parks currently serves as Head of Security at the Folger Shakespeare Library protecting one of the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare as well as major collections of other rare books, manuscripts, and works of art. Mr. Parks additional serves as an adjunct professor with Penn State Public Safety & justice Institute, University of the District of Columbia and instructs with the Bench Mark Professional Seminars and serves as consultant to the Human Communication Institute. Mr. Parks serves as Academic Director for the Georgetown Forensic Academy Summer Camp and Summer Discovery Program.