Protecting Your City

By Raymond Kelly

A 43-year veteran of the NYPD, Raymond W. Kelly is the former police commissioner of the City of New York.  Serving for 14 years, Kelly is the longest serving police commissioner in the city's history, and the first to hold the post for a second, separate tenure. In 2002, Kelly created the first counterterrorism bureau of any municipal police department in the country and established a global intelligence program, stationing detectives in 11 foreign cities.  He is currently the Vice Chair at K2 Intelligence and the author of Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was preparing for his new post-NYPD role as Vice Chair at K2 Intelligence in New York when news of the Paris attacks started rolling in last week.  He knew from initial reports that the news would be bad, but he wasn’t at all surprised by the attack itself.  New York City officials have thwarted no fewer than 16 attempted terrorist attacks since 9/11.  He knows that the terrorists aren’t going to stop coming.

Kelly has a unique perspective, in part because of his role in building up NYC’s counterterrorism capabilities post 9/11, and in part because of the law enforcement resources he dedicated to gathering intelligence from around the world on potential threats against his city. 

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