Captain Michael Smith is a member of the 117th NJSP Class, October 3, 1997. He served 5 years in the Field Operations Section, at Road Duty Stations and NJ Turnpike Cranbury Station.

He served 13 years in the Investigations Branch, on the Cargo Theft Unit, Narcotics Unit, Weapons Trafficking Unit and Street Gangs Unit. Michael investigated long-term, undercover operations and wiretap investigations, and Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) investigations targeting violent street gangs. One of these investigations included the arrest and indictment of forty-three members of the "Sex Money Murder" set of the Bloods Street Gang, a violent street gang based out of Paterson, Trenton, and Lakewood, NJ. He received several Unit Citations and Awards for various successful investigations. In 2007, he was nominated for Trooper of the Year for his work in the area of Street Gang related investigations.
 
Michael served 7 years in the Regional Operations & Intelligence Center (ROIC) Section. He was assigned to and supervised in the Information & Intelligence Analysis Bureau and the Office of Drug Monitoring and Analysis. He obtained secret security clearance and was granted access to classified FBI information systems and databases. Michael currently serves as the Bureau Chief of the Information & Intelligence Analysis Bureau. He oversaw the construction and initial operations of the Real Time Crime Center in the City of Trenton, along with the Crime Gun Center and Facial Recognition Initiative. Michael currently oversees the Attorney General’s Gun Violence Reduction Taskforce. Utilizing the Real Time Crime Centers as the tip of the spear in efforts to engage the New Jersey law enforcement community in the philosophy of Precision Policing and Precision Prosecution.
 
Michael participated in the coordination of Major/National Level Events: Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowl XLVII, Jersey City Active Shooter, NJ SPEAR Puerto Rico Earthquake Deployment, COVID-19 Pandemic.
 
He attended and graduated from NJSACOP Command and Leadership Academy (2020) held in NJ. Possess a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from Seton Hall University (2008) and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Kean University (1994).
 

Joe Brennan is a Major with the New Jersey State Police and the Director of the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center (NJ ROIC), the state fusion center. The NJ ROIC serves as New Jersey's primary focal point for information sharing and intelligence production needed to support law enforcement, counter terrorism, and homeland security missions.

 

Joe began his law enforcement in 1995 as a municipal police officer before enlisting in the New Jersey State Police (NJSP). Upon graduation from the NJSP Academy in 1998, he performed general policing and highway patrol duties in Northern New Jersey. In 2003, Joe deployed to Irvington Township as part of the Essex County Urban Anti-Crime Partnership where his duties expanded from uniformed, proactive patrol to designation as detective conducting street level narcotics investigations. In 2005, he was a plank holder of the CeaseFire Task Force, a multi-agency investigative unit where he conducted investigations into Shooting-Hits in the City of Newark and Irvington Township. 

 

In 2008, Joe joined the NJ ROIC Analysis Element supervising the nascent statewide Gun Violence Analysis program. He spearheaded the NJ POP and NJ Trace initiatives, which established platforms for collecting and analyzing statewide shooting-hit information and crime gun recoveries in real-time, providing executive decision-makers, commanders, investigators, and patrol personnel with the information necessary for combating gun crimes. This information continues to support various regional, crime reduction, strategy meetings across the state, assisting commanders with enforcement strategies. 

 

From 2012 to 2017, Joe coordinated the Corr-Stat Initiative, a regional information-sharing initiative comprised of jurisdictions along the Rt 21 Corridor between Paterson and Newark focusing on inter-jurisdictional, recidivist offenders and other public safety issues of mutual concern. The Corr-Stat Initiative, through timely and accurate information sharing and intelligence analysis, provides area police commanders with a common operating picture needed to coordinate resources and design shared solutions to shared problems.

 

In 2014, Joe was a principal leader in the creation of The Corr-Stat Region Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) from the concept of operations to its current deployment. The RTCC leverages existing networks of Corr-Stat partner agencies, academia, and industry, creating an information and intelligence capability that gathers, analyzes, and distributes real-time, tactical, intelligence support to law enforcement practitioners in the region. 

 

Joe was nominated for New Jersey State Police Trooper of The Year five times in recognition for his efforts in creating collaborative relationships through information sharing. Joe earned a Bachelor of Science from the North Carolina-Wilmington in 1992 and graduated from Saint Peter's Preparatory School, Jersey City, NJ.