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Hassan Aden is the former Chief of Police of the Greenville Police Department in Greenville, North Carolina. Hassan Aden serves as the federal monitor overseeing the consent decree monitoring team Cleveland and is the deputy monitor in the Baltimore consent decree.

Until late 2015, he was the Director of the Research and Programs for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), where he directly oversaw the day-to-day management of operational programs and research projects aimed at advancing professional police services. He served for 26 years at the Alexandria Police Department in Alexandria, Virginia, rising to the rank of Deputy Chief until his retirement in 2012.

Chief Aden is a former commissioner of the governing board of CALEA. He currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Law and Justice, working with the world’s top criminologists, economists, and other academics on law and justice issues. Among other academic credentials, he holds a Masters of Public Administration from American University in Washington, DC.