DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE

SECRETARIES

FORMER SECRETARIES


[photo, Edward T. Norris, Maryland Secretary of State Police] COL. EDWARD T. NORRIS
Secretary of State Police, 2003
Acting Secretary of State Police, 2003

Secretary of State Police, March 4, 2003 to December 10, 2003. Acting Secretary of State Police, January 15 to March 4, 2003. Resigned December 10, 2003. Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2003; Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, 2003. Chair, Cease Fire Council, 2003; Handgun Roster Board, 2003; Police Training Commission, 2003; Vehicle Theft Prevention Council, 2003.

Edward T. Norris, Secretary of State Police, February 2003. Photo by Richard Lippenholz.


Member, State Child Fatality Review Team, 2003; State Information Technology Board, 2003; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee for Minority Affairs, 2003; State Postmortem Examiners Commission, 2003; Board of Trustees, State Retirement and Pension System, 2003.

Deputy Commissioner of Operations, New York City Police Department, 1996-2000 (police officer, 1980-96, serving in patrol services bureau; narcotics division; detective bureau; New York City Department of Investigation; warrant division; Queen's South detective operations; cold-case homicide squad).

Police Commissioner, Baltimore City, 2000-02. Deputy Commissioner, Field Operations Bureau, Baltimore City Police Department. Member, Maryland Security Council, 2002-03.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, April 10, 1960. Attended Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, New York; University of Rochester; St. John's University, B.S. (criminal justice). Graduate, Senior Police Management Institute, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Radio host, The Ed Norris Show, WHFS (105.7 fm), 2006-10. Radio Co-host, The Norris & Davis Show, 2010-16, and The Norris & Long Show, 2016- WJZ (105.7 fm). Co-author, Way Down in the Hole: The Meteoric Rise, Tragic Fall and Ultimate Redemption of America's Most Promising Cop (2017). Outstanding Performance Award, City of New York Department of Investigation, 1992. Married; one child.

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