LEIU/IALEIA Training Conference, Orlando, Florida - 2010

 


LEIU General Chairperson
Russell Porter

Director, Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center and Intelligence Bureau, Department of Public Safety

Mr. Porter began his law enforcement career in 1978, serving as a police officer and a deputy sheriff until 1982, when he joined the Iowa Department of Public Safety as a Special Agent. Mr. Porter has been continuously assigned to the criminal intelligence discipline since 1984, and is now the Director of the state's Intelligence Fusion Center and the DPS Intelligence Bureau, where he reports directly to the Commissioner of Public Safety for the State of Iowa. The Intelligence Bureau is charged with the criminal intelligence, analysis, homeland security, and anti-terrorism responsibilities in the Department. He works closely with Iowa’s Homeland Security Advisor, the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division, members of The Iowa Law Enforcement Intelligence Network (LEIN) and LEIN Regional Fusion Offices, and many others to establish the statewide Intelligence Fusion System in Iowa. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and the Operating Council for the Safeguard Iowa Partnership, a voluntary coalition of the state’s business and government leaders, who share a commitment to combining their efforts to prevent, protect, respond, and recover from catastrophic events in Iowa.

At the national and international level, Mr. Porter has been elected by his peers and is now serving his second two-year term as General Chairman of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit, the oldest professional association of law enforcement intelligence units in the U.S. He also serves as Chairman of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, and as Chairman of the Global Intelligence Working Group (part of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, affiliated with the U.S. Department of Justice). Mr. Porter is a member of the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group (ITACG) Advisory Council, which meets at least quarterly at the National Counterterrorism Center; and the Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Partners Group, established to provide the Director of National Intelligence with perspectives on the national intelligence information needs and equities of the state, local, and tribal communities. Additionally, he currently serves on the National Fusion Center Coordination Group; the Police Investigative Operations Committee for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); the Executive Advisory Board for the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA); and the Advisory Board for Michigan State University’s Criminal Justice Intelligence Program. He has previously participated in the monthly meetings of the U.S. Department of Justice Intelligence Coordinating Council at FBI Headquarters, and served as a Fusion Group Subject Matter Expert for the Intelligence and Information Sharing Working Group of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), and for the LLIS Intelligence Requirements Initiative.

Mr. Porter has been a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. He has also contributed to IACP's Criminal Intelligence Sharing: A National Plan for Intelligence-led Policing at the Local, State, and Federal Levels; Global’s National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan; the jointly-issued DOJ – DHS Fusion Center Guidelines; the HSAC’s Homeland Security Intelligence and Information Fusion report; and numerous publications, training programs, and curricula about criminal intelligence.

In 2004 Mr. Porter became the third recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU), and was named "Leader of the Year" in the 2004 Golden Dome Awards Program awarded by the Governor of the State of Iowa In 2007 he was awarded the IALEIA President’s Distinguished Service Award for his work in championing the protection of privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights in criminal intelligence work. The IACP also recognized Mr. Porter’s efforts in 2008 by awarding him the IACP Civil Rights Award in the category of Individual Achievement for his “consistent and vocal presence in law enforcement stressing the importance of protecting civil rights in policy, training and ethical practice of the intelligence function.”

A graduate of the 195th Session of the FBI National Academy, he has been awarded Lifetime Certification from the Society of Certified Criminal Analysts. Mr. Porter possesses a Master of Public Administration degree from Drake University, and has completed all coursework and comprehensive exams toward the Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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