Winners included William ( Bill
)
Bratton , former police commission- er of the NYPD twice , the
BPD , and former chief of the
LAPD , and
Exec- utive Chairman , Risk Advisory at the
Teneo Group ; the DEA ; U . S .
Marine
Corps ; DHS S &
T , Federal
Protective
Service ;
DHS S & T NUSTL ;
USMS ;
USBP ;
PANYNJ ; the
NYS DHSES ;
the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children ( NCMEC ),
NC-
MEC ' s CEO Mr . John F .
Clark ;
Sher- iff Tom
Knight of Sarasota
County
( FL ), Grant
Coffey , CBRNE Industry
Expert and Director of Tribute to
Honor .
Additionally honored in the 2019
' ASTORS ' Dean
Alexander , the
Director of Homeland Security
Re- search Program & Professor at
West- ern Illinois University ; Dr .
Sean
Lawler , SSA at the DEA and
DEA Chief Aviation Training
Officer ;
Scientific Researchers Dr .
Konstan- tinos Papazoglou and Dr . Daniel
M . Blumberg ;
Congressman Bri- an Fitzpatrick ( PA ); and Mr .
Ewart
Williams of the NJCU
Professional Security Studies
Department .
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' ASTORS ' Excellence awards are or-
AST Honors the DEA for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative at the2019 ‘ ASTORS ’ Homeland Security Awards Luncheon at ISC East .
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