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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
TRIBUTE HONORING DR. R.A. GREGG, COMMISSIONER, NYSCAB
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HON. MAX ROSE
of new york
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Mr. ROSE of New York. Madam Speaker, I respectfully ask that you and
my other distinguished colleagues join me in honoring Dr. R.A. Gregg
for his consistently remarkable dedication to community affairs,
community-police relations and his longstanding commitment to improving
our community.
While Dr. Gregg has a varied professional portfolio ranging from
Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of a community affairs
nonprofit organization that serves New York State to political campaign
committee Chairman to Director of Operations for a family established
boutique law firm, his dedication to providing community affairs and
improving community-police relations can be seen in all his endeavors.
Most recently, Dr. Gregg was appointed the first Commissioner of the
New York State Community Affairs Bureau, a nonprofit organization, by
its Board of Governors. The NYSCAB is a volunteer organization
comprised of community, nonprofit and clergy leaders as well as
current, former and retired law enforcement officers and law
enforcement and government officials that provides quality community
affairs services to New York State, New York City and its residents.
Beyond his dedication to ensuring that quality community affairs
services are provided to New York State, New York City and its
residents, Commissioner Gregg has a passion for community-police
relations. He is active in the law enforcement community and serves as
a Chaplain or Chaplain (ex-officio) for numerous organizations
including the New York City Department of Correction's Correction
Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA), the New York State Court
Officers Association, the New York City Police Department's Detectives
Endowment Association (DEA) and the New York City Police Department's
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), among others. He also serves
as the Chief of the Chaplains Unit for the Law Enforcement Employees
Benevolent Association (LEEBA). Upon being appointed Commissioner of
NYSCAB, he established the NYSCAB Volunteers in Police Service Unit to
oversee and run the VIPS Program which is a locally-driven Citizen
Corps program that allows community members to offer their time and
talents to NYSCAB and local law enforcement agencies. The VIPS program
is managed and implemented by the International Association of Chiefs
of Police (IACP) and has registered the NYSCAB VIPS with the national
VIPS program.
For many years Dr. Gregg has been active in civic organizations. He
serves as a Member of the Board of Directors or as a Member of the
following organizations: Archdiocese of New York (Regional Advisory
Board Member and School Advisory Board Member), African American Clergy
& Elected Officials--Brooklyn (Member), Bronx Clergy Task Force
(Member), the Global Alliance of Hispanic Law Enforcement Professionals
(Chair, Board of Chaplains), God's Whisper Burial Fund (Vice Chairman),
the International Conference of Police Chaplains (Member), the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Member),
National Baptist Convention (Member), the National Organization of
Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) (Regular Member), Clergy
Leaders Council (Member) and Occupy the Block (a Founding Member).
Each aspect of Dr. Gregg's service to the community speaks to his
complete nature and his dedication to improving the quality of life for
the residents of the community as well as for the police community. I
am proud to say that we have someone like Dr. R.A. Gregg living in our
community and am very grateful for all the work he has done and
continues to do to improve our community.
Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure and admiration that I stand
before you today to honor Dr. R.A. Gregg for his many years of selfless
and compassionate service to the Staten Island and Brooklyn community,
and to all of our community's residents and acknowledge his latest
recognition which he shall receive at the 2019 Somos Albany Conference
held March 8-10, 2019 as well as recognize Dr. Gregg's milestone
birthday which is on March 9th.
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