28 Nov Carl J. Truscott
Carl J. Truscott, Chief Executive Officer for North America, is the former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and a former head of presidential protection and assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Truscott advises ASERO’s clients on strategic plans for security preparedness, helps companies identify alternative uses for technology solutions to enhance homeland security defense and works to integrate those solutions into the security marketplace.
Mr. Truscott has 26 years of federal law enforcement experience, having provided strategic and operational leadership in uniquely challenging situations at two of the most prestigious and multifaceted federal law enforcement agencies in America. He has an exceptional background and experience in all phases of law enforcement, counterterrorism strategies, and integrated security planning and solutions.
Mr. Truscott was appointed by the attorney general to serve as ATF director, a role he held from 2004-2006. Under Mr. Truscott’s leadership, the bureau reduced violent crime to an historic 30-year low, expanded its role in explosives investigations, developed a National Center for Explosives Training and Research and constructed a new training academy. Most importantly the 5,000 men and women of ATF were able to make effective contributions to the Department of Justice’s highest priority – the prevention of terrorism – through intelligence sharing, investigations, regulation, training, laboratory services and an expanded international presence.
As an assistant director with the Secret Service, Mr. Truscott was responsible for the investigative and protective intelligence, threat assessment activities, technical security, information technology and emergency preparedness. Prior to his term as assistant director, he served as the special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, where he had primary responsibility for supervising all protective matters relating to the president, the first family, and the White House. During a period of unprecedented global threat and terrorist activity, Mr. Truscott implemented a strategic approach to security structure, functions and operations. During his Secret Service tenure, Mr. Truscott was also assigned to the New York and Los Angeles field offices, he was detailed as a professional staff member to the U. S. Senate Appropriations Committee in the 105th Congress and he served as the Secret Service coordinator for the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego. He began his law enforcement career in 1980 as an investigator for the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety.
Mr. Truscott received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware. He attended executive programs at The George Washington University and Harvard University and participated in the Director of Central Intelligence’s Intelligence Community Senior Leadership Program. He has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Criminology and at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Truscott serves on the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Board of Directors and the National Law Enforcement Exploring Committee, and he is a member of ASIS International. Mr. Truscott also served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Mr. Truscott’s numerous honors throughout his law enforcement career include the Presidential Rank Award as Meritorious Executive in 2003.