Tony Farrar is Chief of the Rialto (CA) Police Department. A police officer for over 32 years, Chief Farrar has extensive tactical operations expertise and has shared his knowledge through presentations to law enforcement personnel, community groups, and the private sector throughout California and in other states. His written materials have been published in both domestic and international publications. Last year he was appointed as an executive fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington D.C. and member of the International Advisory Board of the Cambridge Executive Program. Chief Farrar received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Evidence-Based Policing for outstanding policing research that advances the evidence base in policing and informs police practice. Chief Farrar is a graduate of the California Peace Officers Standard and Training Executive Leadership Command College and the Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Police at Boston University.
This talk is part of a series of speeches and discussions from the Conference on Violence and Policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities. The conference was hosted and organized by the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Presentation: http://stanford.io/1lbLnEZ. For more information on the Program on Poverty and Governance, please visit http://povgov.stanford.edu and follow #PovGov on Twitter.