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Robert McNeilly, Jr., "is a
respected metropolitan police chief.
He served as the chief of the
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police from 1996
until his retirement in 2006. Sworn in
as a Pittsburgh police officer in
1977, he served as a patrol officer,
plainclothes officer, sergeant,
lieutenant and commander before being
promoted to chief. In his 37-year
law-enforcement career, Bob gained
experience and expertise in a wide
range of police work, including
patrol, investigations, special
operations, traffic, communications,
support, and training.
Bob has been a consultant to the
United States Department of Justice
during “pattern or practice” civil
rights investigations of a number of
police departments nationwide, and to
various municipalities regarding
firearms training, searches and
seizures, supervision, and use of
force.
Upon his retirement from the
Pittsburgh Police force, Bob served as
chief of a suburban Pennsylvania
police department from 2006 until
2014. During those years, he also
provided police management training
through The McNeilly Group, LLC.
Since 2013, he has served as a
consent-decree monitor to the New
Orleans Police Department.
With Chief McNeilly as part of the
monitoring team, the New Orleans
Police Department has developed into
one of the leading agencies in best
practices in policing.
Bob lives in Florida with his wife
of 30 years, former Pittsburgh Police
Commander Catherine McNeilly who is
the co-founder of The McNeilly Group
LLC, a police management consulting
firm."
Chief Robert McNeilly, Jr., is the
author of The Blue Continuum: A
Police Chief’s Perspective on What’s
Wrong with Policing Today and How to
Fix It.
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According
to the book description of The Blue
Continuum: A Police Chief’s Perspective
on What’s Wrong with Policing Today and
How to Fix It, it is "Much more
than a biography or a case study, The
Blue Continuum is an operator’s manual
for developing and managing effective
police forces on any scale. Designed for
aspiring or serving chiefs, officers on
patrol, and mayors or other elected
officials concerned with the almost
18,000 state and local law-enforcement
bureaus across the United States, it
presents chapter-by-chapter road maps for
better, more sustainable law enforcement
and public safety.
The book’s title refers to a color-coded
grouping that Chief McNeilly developed
for assessing his employees. “Officers
fall into one of six groups,” he writes.
“The police agency providing the proper
policy, training, supervision, and
discipline will improve the performance
of five of the groups and weed out those
in the sixth.”
His continuum ranges from sky blue
(“excellent, steady, reliable
self-starters, the 20 percent responsible
for 80 percent of the good police work
being done”) to midnight blue (“officers
who should never have been hired, a
sinister one-to-two percent”).
Without encouragement for high-performing
officers and corrective action for
laggards, he writes, a department “will
be rife with citizens’ dissatisfaction
and complaints, lawsuits, improper use of
force, excessive vehicle collisions,
corruption, and other issues that may
result in outside agencies taking some
control of the department, disbanding the
agency, and terminating personnel,
including the chief.”
About
the Pittsburg Bureau of Police
According to the Pittsburg Bureau of
Police, "In 1873, the Police Badge was
designed and officially adopted by the
City of Pittsburgh. The badge is a
unique design: The crest is from the
Coat-of-Arms of William Pitt, the
first Earl of Chatham, and the man for
whom Pittsburgh is named. The garter
around the badge is linked to King
George III, the last English ruler of
the American colonies. The shield is a
circular fighting shield used by
15th century Greek foot soldiers.
During the 16th and 17thcenturies, the
circular shield was used extensively
in the British Isles, hence its
appearance in Pittsburgh. The
Pittsburgh Police Badge with its
distinctive design and history is worn
with great pride by the men and women
of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police." |
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