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WHEREAS, Assistant Chief Maurita J. Bryant, a resident of the Homewood Brushton community, mother of 2 children, grandparent to 4 children and great-grandparent to 4 children, will retire from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police after 39 years of service; and,
WHEREAS, in December of 2014, Chief Cameron S. McLay asked Chief Bryant to oversee the Investigations Branch of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police; and,
WHEREAS, Chief Bryant is a 1970 graduate of George Westinghouse High School. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree and Master's Degree in Criminal Justice at Point Park University. She is a 2004 graduate of the 218th session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and a 2005 graduate from the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Police in Boston, Massachusetts; and,
WHEREAS, Chief Bryant has been the facilitator for the MOMS and COPS Program, a domestic violence program, for the Bureau since 2000. For ten years Chief Bryant was the Executive Director of a teenage intervention program called Save Our (little) Sisters, SOS. In 1999, she founded the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, NOBLE. She is a past national president and currently serves as the Region II Vice President for NOBLE, as well as a past president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Organization of Black Women in Law Enforcement, (NOBWLE); and,
WHEREAS, Chief Bryant is an active member of the Greater Pittsburgh Business and Professional Women's Club, Gwen's Girls, Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation, and the Birmingham Foundation. She serves on the Advisory Board of Women Against Abusive Relations, WARR, and is an Honorary Board Member of Sojourner House and Sojourner MOMS; and,
WHEREAS, She serves on the Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney General's Police/Community Relations Committee, and the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency's Disproportionate Minority Contact Committee in Pittsburgh...
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