45 Manetto Hill Road
Plainview
Membership Meeting
Wednesday, February 16th
7:30am to 9:00am
Mid-Island Y JCC
(45 Manetto Hill Road, Plainview)
Please Note: With the state mask mandate still in effect for schools, masks must be worn at all times while in the JCC (unless you are eating and drinking while seated).
Featured Speaker
Police Commissioner Patrick J. Ryder, Nassau County Police Department
(Read his bio below)
Spotlight Speakers for this meeting are Mark Snider, MapToons and Scott Lieberman and Gina Farrell, coordinators of the School to Career Program at POBJFK High School who will talk about the availability and benefits of interns for member businesses.
BIO: Patrick J. Ryder was named Commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department in February 2018. He has spent 38 years in law enforcement, serving the last 36 years with the Nassau County Police Department. Commissioner Ryder began his law enforcement career with the New York Police Department in January 4, 1984. He joined the NCPD on July 18, 1986 and was assigned to the 3rd Precinct and in 1989 assigned to the Bureau of Special Operations. Promoted to Sergeant in 1995 and assigned to the 5th Precinct, 8th Squad, and the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) as the Deputy Commanding Officer. In 2008 he was designated the Commanding Officer of AFU, where he proactively implemented a number of life-saving programs and initiatives that helped ensure officer and public safety. These include the NCPD’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) system; the R.E.A.C.H. Program; the Civilian Intelligence Analyst Program; the DNA Collection Initiative; and the creation of the Counter-Terrorism Unit, Think Tank, and the Department’s Criminal Intelligence Rapid Response Team (CIRRT). Together these initiatives have brought crime in Nassau County to historic lows, allowing residents to enjoy one of the lowest crime rates in the United States.
Commissioner Ryder has a Master’s Degree in Homeland Security and Management from Long Island University – Riverhead Campus. He is an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice and Intelligence-Led Policing at Nassau Community College and taught at Dowling College until 2015. He currently sits on the Advisory Board for Criminal Justice at SUNY Farmingdale and has been a Counter-Terrorism Lecturer at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. Commissioner Ryder is a New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services-Certified Law Enforcement Instructor, a New York State Certified Crime and Intelligence Analyst, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and has Top Secret clearance with the FBI’s New York Field Office. He has also been deputized as an IRS Criminal Investigator. Additionally, he has trained members of law enforcement agencies from Egypt, Tajikistan, Tunisia, South Africa, and Turkey. He and his wife Jill have three children: Liam, Sean, and Meghan.