Thomas Verni

Background

About Thomas Verni

After retiring from the NYPD as a detective, I became a consultant featured on numerous local NYC, and national media entities such as Fox News, CNN, and BBC tv/radio discussing various law enforcement related issues. You can currently see me in episodes of #CrimesGoneViral on the Investigation Discovery Channel. I have conducted various trainings and public speaking events around the NYC area and nationally with Blue Courage where I have co-facilitated police trainings on diversity and leadership. I have dabbled in real estate sales in the Long Island area as well as performed duties as an interim Executive Director of the Westbury Business Improvement District. I am currently on contract as the Director of Safety & Security for the Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, New York. Working as a detective in the NYPD allowed me to make real, tangible, positive changes in peoples lives. In my law enforcement career I obtained a wealth of skills and experience working as a patrol officer (with some undercover work) and a Community Policing Officer, a police academy instructor, supervising and teaching recruit officers and in-service officers and my last assignment was as the citywide liaison to the LGBT Community in New York City for the Chief of Community Affairs. In that role I helped report and aid investigations around bias related hate crimes including assault, robbery, and murder. In that role I had a broad range of training, media / public relations, crime prevention training, curriculum modification and presented many trainings for the department and community. As an expanded role I was also certified and preformed functions as a Citywide Crime Prevention Specialist. Post "retirement" has allowed me to broaden my consulting to media, real estate, and non-profit work with a local business improvement district in Long Island as well as security director work with a K-12 private school. I'm the most un-retired "retired" person you may meet. I am always open to new possibilities, working on some new projects and working on a book in the new year.