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NYPD DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – James J. Fyfe, Ph.D., deputy commissioner of training at the New York City Police Department, will deliver the keynote address at the College’s 163rd Spring (Graduate) Commencement on Wednesday, May 25. During the ceremony, Fyfe will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the College’s Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers.

The College will award more than 200 degrees in the graduate programs of education and engineering as well as undergraduate degrees in organizational management through its adult degree completion program.

Fyfe was appointed a patrolman in the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in 1963. He served on patrol and in training assignments for 16 years, earning seven citations before retiring as a lieutenant in 1979. On May 20, 2002, he returned to the NYPD as the deputy commissioner of training. He holds a bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate of laws degree from CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He completed his master’s degree and doctorate in criminal justice from SUNY/Albany. Fyfe has won several awards for his scholarship and research and the effects they’ve had on police policy and practice. These include the 2002 American Society of Criminology’s August Vollmer Award, which recognizes a criminologist whose research has contributed to justice or to the treatment or prevention of criminal or delinquent behavior.

During his hiatus from the police force, Fyfe was a professor at American University and Temple University and a senior fellow of the Police Foundation. He also was commissioner of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and a visiting professor at the School of Police Studies at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is currently on leave from his position as distinguished professor of law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Fyfe has published several books and more than 100 articles and book chapters on the subject of criminal justice and police policies. He served as the editor of Justice Quarterly, the journal of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and also served on the editorial boards of four other professional journals. He is completing a National Institute of Justice study of officers dismissed or forced to resign from the NYPD.

Fyfe, who has been involved in a series of high-profile cases such as the Rodney King trial and the Jeffrey Dahmer serial murders, has consulted with law enforcement agencies and civil and human rights organizations globally. He has testified as a police practices expert in the U.S. Senate and Congress and in federal and state courts in the District of Columbia, 38 states and Canada.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 in the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Manhattan College, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2003, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning that offers more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science as well as graduate programs in education and engineering.

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