Sergeant, Assistant Integrity Control Officer - Compliance Analyst
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo
Led oversight across multiple specialized units and helped support a workforce of 200+ officers by reinforcing accountability, compliance, and operational integrity.
🎯 Team Leadership & Compliance Standards: Advanced ethical conduct, accountability, and anti-corruption practices within a high-performing investigative environment. Guided officers and administrative personnel in accurate documentation, evidence handling, and adherence to investigative and reporting protocols relevant to financial crime and fraud-related matters.
🎯 Fraud Risk & Integrity Oversight: Designed and maintained audit and review frameworks to identify emerging fraud risks, suspicious activity patterns, and compliance concerns. Coordinated integrity-related case matters and maintained secure documentation systems to support investigative oversight, compliance monitoring, and broader organizational risk mitigation.
Sergeant – Specialized Assignments:
Sep 2012 - Mar 2024 · 11 yrs 7 mos
🎯 Leadership & Compliance Oversight: Supervised 40–60 personnel per shift and directed compliance-focused enforcement operations involving fraud, financial misconduct, and complex investigations, while ensuring adherence to investigative procedures, documentation requirements, evidence standards, and reporting protocols.
🎯 Fraud & Financial Crime Enforcement: Led investigative and enforcement activity targeting fraudulent business practices, financial irregularities, regulatory non-compliance, and emerging risk indicators across nightlife and cabaret venues using intelligence-driven inspections, operational oversight, and pattern-based risk review.
🎯 Interagency Investigations & Compliance Coordination: Coordinated multi-agency investigations with licensing authorities, fire inspectors, and city regulatory partners to identify violations, strengthen compliance controls, and mitigate fraud, regulatory, and operational risk exposure.
🎯 Investigative Supervision & Case Quality Control: Supervised an eight-member investigative team reviewing crime trends, financial misconduct indicators, and related enforcement matters while maintaining high standards for documentation accuracy, evidence handling, legal compliance, and case quality control.
Detective in the Organized Crime Control Bureau (Financial/Fraud and Narcotics Investigations)
Jun 2008 - Aug 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos
Progressively advanced to lead complex fraud, narcotics, and financial crime investigations, applying investigative methodologies similar to AML standards to identify illicit revenue streams and reduce internal and external risk.
🎯 Investigations: Directed high-impact narcotics and fraud investigations yielding criminal asset forfeitures, using covert operations and interagency collaboration to target drug-related financial activity and organized crime.
🎯 Anti-Fraud and Pattern Recognition: Executed complex anti-fraud and money-laundering tracing operations, identifying illicit proceeds through funnel accounts and cash-intensive business fronts; provided expert financial testimony supporting successful prosecutions and long-term disruption of criminal enterprises.
Police Officer
Jan 2005 - Jun 2008 · 3 yrs 6 mos
🎯 Fraud & Financial‑Crime Detection: Investigated suspicious activity during patrol and incident response, identifying indicators of fraud, identity theft, and financial‑crime schemes while addressing quality‑of‑life concerns to enhance community safety.
🎯 Preliminary Criminal Investigations: Collected evidence, interviewed witnesses, and produced detailed investigative reports that supported follow‑up inquiries into fraud, financial offenses, and other criminal cases.
🎯 Community Intelligence & Partnership Building: Collaborated with community organizations, local businesses, and neighborhood groups to build trust, gather intelligence on scams and financial exploitation, and strengthen police–community cooperation.