John F. Timoney Chief of Police, Miami Police Department Miami, Florida

John F. Timoney was appointed Chief of Police of the Miami Police Department in 2003, after serving one year as Chief Executive Officer of an international private investigation and security company in New York City. Prior to that, he served four years as the Police Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, where he commanded a diverse police force of approximately 7,000 officers and over 900 civilian employees in the fifth largest metropolitan city in the United States.

Mr. Timoney, a native of Dublin, Ireland, immigrated to the United States at the age of 13. He has earned two graduate degrees and is a very vocal proponent for enhanced formal education of police officers and democratic policing throughout the world. Mr. Timoney is considered among the nation's highest authorities on terrorism. To this end, he created and laid the groundwork for the establishment of the City of Miami Institute for Democratic Policing.