Training Advisory Board - Ron Brooks

Ron Brooks , Director of Northern California Regional Intelligence Center.

Ronald E. Brooks is a Captain with the San Mateo County California Sheriff’s Office assigned as Director of the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC). This program combines the activities and responsibilities of the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) and Northern California Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center (RTTAC) to form an all crimes criminal intelligence fusion center.

Prior to being assigned to the HIDTA, Brooks served as an Assistant Chief with the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE). Brooks also served as the Senior Special Agent in Charge (SSAC), at BNE’s San Jose Regional Office. In that capacity, he managed the regional office as well as seven multi-jurisdictional task forces and was responsible for all state narcotic enforcement efforts in the six county greater Silicon Valley.

Mr. Brooks is a thirty-six year veteran law enforcement officer, with more than twenty-six years spent in narcotic enforcement. He has worked in all capacities with BNE including; as an undercover agent, Task Force Commander, and Supervisor of The Clandestine Lab, Major Violator, and Violence Suppression Programs before promoting to Senior Special Agent in Charge.

Brooks serves as the Chair of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) and Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG) which are designated as Federal Advisory Commissions (FACA) established to advise the United States Attorney General on matters involving criminal intelligence and information sharing. The CICC has developed or consulted on most current criminal intelligence and information policies currently being used in the U.S. including the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan, Fusion Center Guidelines, Fusion Center Baseline Capabilities and Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource Addendum to the Fusion Center Baseline Capabilities. As the Chair of the CICC he is also a member of the Global Justice Initiative Executive Steering Committee.

Brooks also serves as the Chair of the State and Local Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Advisory Board for the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He has been active in the International Association of Chief’s of Police (IACP) Intelligence Led Policing Summits and many other forums regarding information sharing and law enforcement intelligence. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the University of San Francisco’s International Criminal Justice Leadership Institute. He is a participant in DEA’s Leadership Forum and is a member of the IACP’s Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Committee.

Mr. Brooks has been a voting member on the Executive Board of the California Narcotic Officers’ Association (CNOA) and served as that organization’s President in 1995. Mr. Brooks is currently in his third two-year term as the President of the National Narcotic Officers’ Association Coalition, (NNOAC) which represents forty-four state narcotic officer’s associations with a combined membership of more than 70,000 police officers. In that capacity, he represents the interests of our nation’s narcotic officers with Congress, Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, professional associations, and the White House.