BIOGRAPHY OF ANDRE C. ANDERSON

Andre C. Anderson began his career with the Glendale Police Department in 1991. Before being promoted to sergeant, he served as a field training officer, gang officer, sex crime detective, burglary detective, pawn shop detective, narcotic detective, Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force Agent, and is credited with developing the crime prevention unit coined as the department's premiere community policing team bringing innovation to the police force through leadership and community involvement.

Upon his promotion to Sergeant in 1999, he led and managed patrol squads, community policing squads, civilian call back employees, civilian community action teams, and hundreds of the police academy basic training recruits.

In 2003, he was selected by the city manager to serve as a police liaison/intern.In this role, he led citywide initiatives, managed and investigated citizen complaints for every city department. He also chaired the City's Diversity Committee, and all community outreach diversity related functions.  In this capacity, he was responsible for the City’s Diversity budget.

As an additional leadership responsibility, he formalized plans to prepare for the 2008 Super Bowl. In 2005 his reputation as an organizational change agent and organizer is what led to him being assigned to the newly developed research and development team. In this capacity, he co-authored the police department's first staff study. By examining the organization's conceptual framework, he and the team used data from internal and external sources to determine the organization's beat allocation, optimal number of patrol officers, and the number of non-sworn personnel needed today and into the foreseeable future.

He served as an acting lieutenant in 2004 and was officially promoted in 2006. As the duty lieutenant, he managed many organizational projects used to shape the department's response to crime and its overall culture. An ardent innovator, educator, and practitioner of community policing, he designed, implemented and led strategic plans that enhanced Comp Stats (Community Policing philosophy) putting in place an accountability tracking mechanism. He developed a scheduling program used to schedule all aspects of patrol saving the City hundreds of thousands of dollars. This program met the department's organizational needs while faring well with internal labor associations. He served on the management team that met with the respective labor groups to mediate organizational updates and challenges. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Safety from Grand Canyon University and a Master Degree from Northern Arizona University in Educational Leadership with honors and distinction, and is a graduate (vice president of class) from Northwestern Police Command School and West Point Leadership In Police Organization Command School.

Nationally, he serves on the executive board of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) as the Region Six Vice President. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the activities of eight chapters, oversees twelve states and has oversight over regional training and development. He also served as a co-chair for the National Civil Rights Committee. Currently, he is the Operations Lieutenant over the patrol day shift command. In this capacity, he has jurisdiction citywide while managing approximately 50 employees.