Assistant Chief Lester McKoy
Chief of Support Services

Biography

As Chief of Support Services for the Hartford Police Department since 2001, Hartford Police Assistant Chief Lester McKoy provides senior command oversight of the Hartford Police Academy, Training, Fiscal Management, Human Resources, Records, Fleet Management, and Property Divisions of the Hartford Police Department.  In his capacity as Chief of Support Services, Assistant Chief McKoy also chairs the department's Firearms Discharge Board of Inquiry.

A former Deputy Chief of Police for the City of Stamford, Connecticut, Chief McKoy possesses an extensive experience in law enforcement management and administration.  A certified instructor with the State of Connecticut Police Officer Standards Training Council (POST), Chief McKoy has instructed municipal police officers throughout the State of Connecticut in areas such as police leadership and supervision, patrol techniques, gang violence, laws of arrest, community policing, domestic violence, motor vehicle theft, police communications, development of informants, narcotics and drugs, and search and seizure.  Chief McKoy has also served on Oral Boards for the ranks of deputy chief, captain, lieutenant, and sergeant with the towns of Manchester, Milford, Hartford, Fairfield, and City of Waterbury.

A graduate of Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, with a B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration and the F.B.I. National Training Academy, Quantico, Virginia, Chief McKoy holds certificates from the P.E.R.F. Senior Management Institute for Police at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, and from the Command Training Program of the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management at Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

A member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), and the F.B.I. National Academy Associates, Chief McKoy has served on the Boards of Directors for the Stamford YMCA, Stamford Child Care Center, Truglia Thumbelina Fund Foundation, the Connecticut Community for Drug Free Youth, the Stamford Mayor's South End Neighborhood Revitalization Zone and the Stamford Mayor's Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Task Force.

Chief Lester McKoy served with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department from October 1974 through July 2001, where he was promoted through the ranks from patrolman to Deputy Chief and commanded, supervised, or served with every major division of the department.  In September, 1997, then Lieutenant McKoy was recognized by the State of Connecticut General Assembly and the Stamford Partnership as Community Policing Officer of the Year.  In 1998, then Stamford Deputy Police Chief Lester McKoy was honored by the Inter-Denominational Ministers and Pastors Alliance Coalition and the City of Stamford as Commander of the Stamford Community Policing Task Force.

Chief McKoy served with the United States Army and received an honorable discharge at the rank of Sergeant in 1969.