Kym Craven, Public Safety Director

Kym Craven is a senior management consultant with 20 years of organizational design, program, operations, funding, training, and planning management in the public safety, homeland security and municipal government sectors. Ms. Craven is a nationally recognized expert who understands both the operations and business of public safety. Ms. Craven specializes in the strategic management of policing operations, which includes establishing organizational structure, implementing policies and procedures, and measuring performance.  In addition, Ms. Craven specializes in NIMS/ICS, Emergency Response Planning, Continuity of Government Planning, Homeland Security Technology Assessments, Fire Services Strategic Planning, Community Policing, Highway Safety, Homeland Security Grant Management, and Law Enforcement Leadership Training.

As a management specialist, Ms. Craven provides technical assistance on a wide range of issues related to grant funding. She secured over $5 million in recent grant funding for fire and police departments in the areas of technology, training, program development and staffing, and works with state and local governments to troubleshoot grant issues and ensure compliance.

Prior to joining PSSG, Ms.  Craven was a public safety consultant to numerous municipalities, state and federal agencies, and private organizations. During her career, Ms. Craven was recognized with three national awards for program development and management. Ms. Craven also has practitioner level experience as a patrol officer.

Ms. Craven participates in training, funding and public/private partnership committees of the MA Anti-Terrorism Task Force, and is a member of the IACP, NDIA, and the American Society for Law Enforcement Trainers. She has BS in Criminal Justice from University of Lowell and a MA in Criminal Justice from Anna Maria College.

For more information please email: kcraven@publicsafetystrategies.com.

Richard B. Bailey, Law Enforcement/Policing Sr. Program Manager

Mr. Richard Bailey has more than 28 years of law enforcement experience. As Chief of Police in Grafton, Massachusetts, he led a full service department of 35 employees with a budget of 1.4 million dollars. For 26 years he served with the Nashua, New Hampshire Police Department supervising criminal investigations and providing leadership for juvenile, narcotics, prosecution, community policing and uniform operations.

Mr. Bailey has extensive experience with Municipal Program Development, Grants Management, Project Planning, Facilitation, Policy/Procedure/Plan Development, Instructional Design and general Public Safety Experience.

Mr. Bailey is a certified trainer for Texas A&M Emergency Response Planning and International Association of Chiefs of Police West Point Leadership Programs. He holds a BS in Management from Franklin Pierce College and an MS in Criminal Justice from Fitchburg State College.

For more information please email: rbailey@publicsafetystrategies.com.