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Nicholas Gernon

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Ryan Lubrano

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Jonette Williams

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Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick is one of the most tenured police executives in the country, with over 35 years of policing experience and 20 years as a Chief of Police. A Memphis, Tenn. native, Kirkpatrick has a proven track record across a diverse number of jurisdictions for transforming police departments and reducing violent crime. Kirkpatrick most recently served as Chief of Police in Oakland, where she implemented a significant cultural change in terms of increasing police accountability and transparency, improving Procedural Justice and implementing equity-based decision-making. This cultural shift coincided with a 20-year low homicide rate and a decrease in non-fatal shootings during her tenure.

Prior to her tenure in Oakland, Kirkpatrick served as Bureau Chief in Chicago, where she was the liaison to the Department of Justice (DOJ) while the Chicago Police Department was under investigation for patterns and practice of civil rights violations, resulting in a consent decree. Kirkpatrick also served as Chief of Police in the cities of Ellensburg, Federal Way and Spokane, all in the State of Washington, as well as serving as Undersheriff of the King County Sheriff’s Office. In addition to executive leadership experience, Kirkpatrick is a National Instructor for the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Association’s Leadership Training Program, where she instructs on topics including, but not limited to, Bias and Diversity, Emotional Intelligence and Leading Generations.

Captain Kendrick Allen oversees police services for the NOPD's First District, which includes the Treme and Mid-City areas.

Captain Allen is a 20-plus-year veteran of the NOP whose career includes time spent in the Sixth District, Community Oriented Policing Squid (COPS), Second District, Fourth District, Public Integrity Bureau commander and First District. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice, as well Master’s degrees in both criminal justice administration and theology.

Captain Gwen Nolan serves as commander of the NOPD's Second District which oversees police services for the Uptown and Audubon areas of Orleans Parish. This area incorporates Audubon Park, the Audubon Zoo, as well as Tulane and Loyola Universities.

A 27-year law enforcement veteran, Nolan was appointed the captain of the Fifth District in November 2021. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. In 2005, she graduated from Loyola University New Orleans and was honored, being named Criminal Justice Student of the Year and also received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.  

Nolan formerly worked in the patrol division, district investigation unit, and held supervisory assignments in several units including Intelligence, Records and Identification, Recruitment and Background Investigations. She also served as commander of the Public Integrity Bureau, overseeing the misconduct and force investigation teams, as as captain of the Fifth District  

Nolan is a mentor, graduate, former curriculum consultant, and panel member for the International Association of Chiefs of Police Women’s Leadership Institute, (W.L.I.).  She is also a graduate of the Senior Management Institute for Police (S.M.I.P), and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Leadership in Police Organizations (L.P.O) training programs. She has also co-authored papers on the recruitment and retention of police officers and crime patterns.  

The Second District police station is centrally located at 3401 Broadway Street, providing for quick response times to the different neighborhoods within the district. The Second District station was rebuilt to be a state-of-the-art facility in 2018. The Second Police District is approximately 8.5 square miles, making it the 6th largest police district in the City of New Orleans, but the 5th largest in populace.

Captain Merlin A. Bush joined the New Orleans Police Department in July 1997.  His first assignment was the Third District.  He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in December 2004. Capt. Bush has held various assignments in the New Orleans Police Department’s Third, Fifth, and Sixth Districts.  He worked in the C.O.P.S. Unit, Task Force, Homicide, Narcotics, and SWAT Team as a police officer and team leader. 

In 2006, then-Supt. Warren Riley selected Bush to run the Crime Abatement Team, which was composed of NOPD officers and DEA agents. In 2007, Bush returned to SWAT Team as a sergeant and team leader, where he led the Second Tactical Platoon for seven years. Bush was then temporarily assigned as the acting lieutenant of the Special Operations Division before moving to the Violent Offender Warrant Squad.

In 2016, Bush became the vommander of the Canine Division. He was successful in decreasing Canine’s bite ratio from an average of 60% to 0% over a three-year period.

In March of 2019, Bush was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to the First District as the assistant commander. In this position, he was responsible for more than 90 officers. He additionally led the First District investigations unit and played a major role in the reduction of violent crime during his time there.

In July 2020, Bush became the assistant commander of the NOPD's Homicide Division.  He supervised more than 40 detectives and civilians during this time. The unit finished the year with a 34% solve rate in 2020 and the Cold Case unit solved 2 cases during the same year.  Under Bush’s leadership in 2021, the Cold Case unit solved 22 cases, which was a 1000% increase over the prior year.  The Homicide Unit additionally ended 2023 with a 55% solve rate.  The city also had a reduction of 73 murders from the prior year.

In March of 2024, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and assigned as the commander of the Third District.

Captain Bush has 26.5 years of police service with the New Orleans Police Department.  He is a certified FBI trained instructor and adjunct instructor at the New Orleans Police Academy.  Captain Bush has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Columbia Southern. 

Captain Christina Watson, a New Orleans native, was appointed captain of the Fourth District on January 3, 2023. She graduated from Edna Karr High School in 1996 and received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of New Orleans in 2007. Watson started with the NOPD in 1999 as an operator in the Communication Division, later joining the Training & Education Academy as a recruit in 2002.

Upon graduation from the academy, she began her career as a commissioned officer serving in the Fourth District (2002-03) and Second District (2003-12), until her promotion to platoon sergeant in the Fifth District (2012-15). With her diverse experience, she later transferred to the Public Integrity Bureau’s Force Investigation Team (2015-17), where she conducted investigations on police-involved shootings. In 2017, Watson was promoted to lieutenant and served in the Seventh District until 2020, where she provided her expertise in organizational decisions to prioritize officers to engage more with problem-solving and facilitate the mandates of the consent decree. In 2020, Watson transferred to the Fourth District, where she began overseeing the night-watch platoon until her recent promotion to captain.

In December 2021, Watson received the Supervisor of the Year award from COPS4 for her outstanding work as platoon lieutenant. She believes that every accomplishment starts with hard work and that dreams of success are achieved through hard work hard. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Touro University Worldwide.

Captain Watson is grateful and pleased to be working in the community where she was raised and following the footsteps of her late father, former NOPD Officer Eddie Watson, who was also assigned to the Fourth District as a patrolman during his career.

Capt. Jennifer Hill-Dupree oversees police field operations in the NOPD's Fifth District, which encompasses the Ninth Ward and Bywater areas. 

Capt. Hill-Dupree is a native New Orleanian, having grown up in Gentilly. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. She is also a graduate of the School of Police Staff and Command from Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety. Additionally, she attended FBI Leadership and Management along with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Incident Command System. 

Throughout her 24 years in law enforcement, Capt. Hill-Dupree gained valuable experience working with a variety of community groups, including businesses, non-governmental advocates, members of city government, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Prior to taking over as captain of the Fifth District, Dupree was captain of Central Evidence and Property. Her varied career also includes roles as commander of the Second District, assistant commander of the Second District, district compliance manger in the Sixth District, platoon lieutenant, person crimes sergeant, task force sergeant, platoon sergeant, homicide detective, person crimes detective, mounted patrol officer, and search and rescue diver.

Capt. Hill-Dupree is passionate about the day-to-day interaction with officers & staff as well as the public. She believes in community outreach and providing a strong leadership role to officers and the community she serves. As captain of the Fifth District, she looks forward to contributing to the safety of the Community as well as the officers under her command.

Capt. Wayne DeLarge II oversees field operations for the NOPD's Seventh District, which encompasses New Orleans East. 

A 19-year veteran of the NOPD, Captain DeLarge started his career in the Sixth District.  Most of his service has been in investigations, specifically the Homicide Division where he spent many years before being promoted to Sergeant.  Upon earning his Lieutenant bars in 2018, he was assigned to the Field Operations Division.  He later returned to Homicide as the Commander of the Division.  DeLarge has also been an Assistant Commander of the Fifth and Seventh Districts, and most recently served as captain of the Third District.

Captain DeLarge graduated from St. Augustine High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana.