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Michael Murphy,
LEM
Homeland
Security/Grants Manager
Baton Rouge Police
Department
Michael Murphy has 25 years
of law enforcement experience with the Baton Rouge Police Department and holds
the rank of Sergeant. During his career he has been assigned to Uniform Patrol,
Criminal Investigations, Narcotics, Intelligence, Planning and Research,
Accreditation, and Homeland Security. He has served on numerous local, state,
and national boards and committees on technology, interoperability, homeland
security, and emergency preparedness. Since 2006 he has represented Louisiana
Homeland Security Region 2 on the State Interoperable Executive Committee (SIEC). |
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For
the past 16 years he has had a role in Emergency Management, and was appointed
the Emergency Operations Liaison with the East Baton Rouge Parish Office of
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in 1999. In 2005 Murphy was
assigned to the Office of the Chief of Police and was named the Homeland
Security/Grants Manager, coordinating funding and emergency planning and
operations between local, state, and federal agencies
The BRPD received a COPS ITCP grant in 2005 for an 8
million dollar project to begin the Region 2 Interoperable Communications
Network and Sgt. Murphy was named the Project Manager. Since then he has become
involved in the efforts to expand the P25 700 MHz Communications Systems across
the rest of Louisiana and the Gulf States.
On June 1st, 2008 Sgt. Murphy was loaned to
Northwestern State University, Gulf States Regional Center for Public Safety
Innovations, and assigned as the Interoperable Technology Program Coordinator,
working on facilitating interoperable communications across Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Alabama. |
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