Michael Ronczkowski

Michael Ronczkowski began his law enforcement career in 1983. He previously served for nearly 27 years before honorably retiring in April 2010 with the rank of Major. His assignments consisted of 19 years of investigations to include; burglary, auto theft, assault, robbery, fugitives and homeland security which included the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Major Ronczkowski retired after serving four years as his department’s Homeland Security Bureau Commander and Director of the Fusion Center a DHS recognized center that he initiated. He commanded and managed 80 multi-discipline personnel on homeland security and terrorism-related investigations at the Fusion Center. Major Ronczkowski also served as the Chair of the County’s Terrorism Advisory Committee (TAC), member of the Southeast Regional Domestic Security Task Force (SERDSTF), Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Grant Program and Urban Area Work Group (UAWG) board member. He also maintained high level national security clearances and credentials with the FBI JTTF. Major Ronczkowski has testified before both the U.S. Senate and Congress on matters related to Islamic Extremism and Emergency Response.

He is the author of several publications to include four editions of a text book published with CRC Press titled Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime: Intelligence Gathering, Analysis and Investigations. He is also the co-author of the article Tactical / Investigative Analysis of Targeted Crimes, published by the National Institute of Justice in the Advanced Crime Mapping Topics book sponsored by the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program as well as three contributing articles for The Sage Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Encyclopedia of Criminology and The Encyclopedia of Police Science. Major Ronczkowski is also an established instructor on matters related to homeland security, intelligence, analysis, and a certified GIS instructor with ESRI. He served nine years as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University teaching terrorism and as an instructor for Crime and Intelligence Analysis for over 10 years.