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The National Park Service has named Pamela A. Smith as the new Chief of the United States Park Police, the agency announced on Feb. 25. Smith will become the first African American woman to lead the 230-year-old agency.
Smith is a 23-year veteran of the USPP, a full-service police force with jurisdiction in all federal parks.
“Chief Smith’s commitment to policing as public service and her willingness to listen and collaborate make her the right person to lead the U.S. Park Police at this pivotal moment in our country,” Shawn Benge, deputy director exercising the delegated authority of the NPS director, said.
Pamela Smith named chief of U.S. Park Police
Tom Jackman, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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Pamela A. Smith is the first African American woman to lead the Park Police in the agency s 230-year history.National Park Service.
Pamela Smith, a longtime commander of the U.S. Park Police, was named the permanent chief Thursday by the National Park Service and said she would immediately move to implement body-worn cameras for a department that has no cameras in its cars or on its officers.
Smith, 53, replaces former chief Robert MacLean, who was promoted in August 2019 to head the to the Interior Department s Office of Law Enforcement and Security. The acting chief job was then assumed by Maj. Gregory Monahan, who will return to his post as assistant chief when Smith takes the chief s position Sunday.