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Lt. Lisa Harrison
Lt. Stewart Steele
Lt. Paul Deale
Lt. David Wier
Lt. Lisa Harrison started her law
enforcement career in 1991 as a military police officer in the
United States Marine Corps. She joined the Boynton Beach Police
Department in 1999.
Harrison has served the department in many
different capacities. She started as a road patrol officer,
moved to the position of field training officer, and was a
special victim's unit detective. Upon promotion to the rank of
sergeant, Harrison served as a road patrol sergeant and took a
lateral transfer to the position of administrative and special
services sergeant where she supervised the K-9 unit, marine
patrol, police athletic league, crime prevention and CRA
officers. In addition to those duties, she also was responsible
for all off-duty detail scheduling, special events coordination
and division level internal investigations. She also served as
the executive officer to the uniform services division
commander. Harrison was then asked to serve as the sergeant of
the evidence unit which she accepted. In January of 2006,
Harrison earned the rank of lieutenant and has served as a road
patrol watch commander since that time. She is also a member of
the department's Honor Guard and crisis negotiation team.
Harrison holds an Associate of Arts Degree
in education, a Bachelor of Public Administration Degree from
Barry University, and recently graduated from Palm Beach
Atlantic University with a Master of Science in Organizational
Leadership. Harrison is a graduate of the Command Officers
Development Course from Southern Police Institute at University
of Louisville. Harrison has also been an adjunct instructor at
the Palm Beach Community College Criminal Justice Institute
since 2001 in all areas of police recruit training.
Lt. Stewart Steele began his law
enforcement career in 1983, when he joined the United States
Army as a Military Police Officer. While in the army, he served
at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Fort Meade in Maryland and Taegu
in South Korea, before being honorably discharged in 1987. He
then became a police officer with the Boynton Beach Police
Department. He left briefly in 1990 to work as a police officer
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He returned to the Boynton Beach
Police Department in 1994.
Throughout the years, Steele has served
the citizens of Boynton Beach in many ways. While at the rank of
officer, he experienced two years as a road patrol officer
answering calls for service, four years as a field training
officer training other officers, a total of six years in the
vice narcotic unit, four years in the traffic unit as a traffic
officer and as traffic homicide investigator. He was promoted to
the rank of sergeant in 2001, and was a supervisor on a platoon
in the uniform services division before taking over the traffic
unit. He also served as the department's public information
officer and spokesperson until being promoted to the rank of
lieutenant in 2006.
Steele has since supervised a road patrol
platoon in the uniformed services division. He was commander of
the SWAT team for two years, and a SWAT team member for 17 years
with the privilege of being a team sniper for over 13 years.
Steele has received many law enforcement certificates. In
addition, he has been awarded Officer of the Month on three
occasions and received two meritorious services medals for two
critical incidents involving officer shootings.
Steele is a 2003 graduate of the Southern
Police Institute's Command Officer's Development Course. He
earned a bachelor's degree in professional administration from
Barry University in May 2009. He plans to pursue a master's
degree in criminal justice studies at Florida State University.
Lt. Paul Deale began his law enforcement
career in June of 1997, after being sworn in as a Boynton Beach
police officer. Prior to that, he worked several years in the
banking industry, but law enforcement was always his calling.
Deale had the honor of being selected to
the Honor Guard in October of 1998 and was appointed a Filed
Training Officer in November of 1999. As soon as he was
eligible, Deale entered the sergeant's promotional process and
was promoted to the rank of sergeant in June 2001. Deale served
in this rank as a road patrol supervisor until October 2006 when
he achieved the rank of lieutenant. In his current endeavor,
Deale is an evening shift watch commander. Deale is currently
the Honor Guard commander and has served in this capacity since
2005.
Deale graduated from Brandeis University
in Boston, Mass., where he obtained a bachelor's degree in
social sciences. He recently attended the 55th Command Officer's
Development Course from the Southern Police Institute at the
University of Louisville. Deale is also pursuing his master's
degree. Deale is an avid Dallas Cowboys fan and a die-hard New
York Yankees fanatic.
Lt. David Wier is a 17-year veteran of the
Boynton Beach Police Department and commander of the SWAT team.
He was promoted to sergeant in 2002 and has spent the past six
years supervising officers working road patrol.
Prior to being a sergeant, he worked in
the Detective Bureau, where he investigated property crime and
then major cases. Wier, 40, is a former member of the
department's vice narcotic unit and was assigned to the DEA's
task force in West Palm Beach. He also served as a field
training officer. A member of the SWAT team since 1993, Wier has
received several meritorious unit medals, including an award in
2007 for the apprehension of a barricaded suicidal man who
attempted to abduct a woman and then burglarized an apartment.
He has been involved in over 300 high-risk SWAT operations
throughout his career and served as the incident commander after
a shooting at the Boynton Beach Mall on Christmas Eve in 2006.
Wier has been nominated for Officer of the
Month numerous times and received the award in August 2007. He
was also nominated for Officer of the Year in 2007. Wier is a
2004 graduate of the Southern Police Institute's Command
Officer's Development Course. He is currently working on a
bachelor's degree from Barry University.
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