Chief FABIENNE BROOKS recently retired as Chief of the Criminal Investigations Division after over 26 years experience in law enforcement.   She is President of Brooks S-A-C, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in training, expert witness evaluations and motivational speaker. 

Chief Brooks worked her way up through the ranks and her law enforcement career includes patrol, field training officer, media relations, major crimes investigation and supervision, patrol operations and precinct commander.  She spent 5 years as the Chief of Detectives.  During her tenure, several programs were instituted: Child Death Protocol, a Drug Endangered Children Protocol and a regional intelligence cooperative work group involving five local law enforcement agencies. Other achievements include forming a Domestic Violence Intervention Unit, creating and facilitating a Domestic Violence Council (which was a government focused coordinated effort to address domestic violence) and instituting recruit level ethics training.  Chief Brooks has served on the Governor's Advisory Council on Families, Youth, and Justice, the Governor's Select Committee on Hard to Place Adolescents and on the advisory board of the Building Blocks Grant (which examined the over-representation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system).  She also served as co-chair of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs’ (WASPC) Racial Profiling Task Force and helped to develop a state-wide policy on Unbiased Policing.  She chaired the KCSO committee on unbiased policing that developed a publication (which is being translated into 13 languages predominate in the Seattle area) to educate citizens on what to do when stopped by police. 

Chief Brooks participated in the first nation-wide Meth Summit in 2001 and served as co-convener of the King County Meth Action team for four years.  Along with NCPC, Chief Brooks also facilitated the Washington Working Group which was established in 2002 after an off duty deputy shot and killed an African American male resulting in riots, protests, and other acts of civil disobedience in the Seattle area. This shooting was the 9^th killing of an African American male by law enforcement in the Seattle community in nine years. She facilitated the Sheriff’s Office and other Community leaders coming together to forge a process to begin meaningful dialog on resolving issues of race between L.E. and the minority community. 

Chief Brooks attended Western Washington University and is a 1996 Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy.  Chief Brooks is a 1995 graduate from the FBI National Academy and a 1999 graduate of the Pacific Northwest Command College.  She is the President of the newly formed NOBLE-Washington Chapter and just completed a term as President of the FBI NAA-Washington Chapter.  She is an Advisory Board member of the National Center for Women & Policing and the Violence Against Women On-Line Project (VAWOR). 

Chief Brooks has been married for 25 years to Herb, a retired 32-year Captain with Seattle Fire Department.  They have a blended family of four adult children and seven grandchildren.   

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