CJ Program Sets Day for Remembrance
The Sam Houston State University criminal justice program
will have a special ceremony on Thursday, April 24, at 1:30
p.m. to commemorate alumni and other law enforcement officers
who have lost their lives in the line of duty and honor those
students and alumni serving in the military.
The Sundial Ceremony will take place at the flagpole in front of the main entrance
to the Criminal Justice Center. All students, faculty, staff and friends
of the Center are invited to attend.
The Center will also host a luncheon to recognize the leaders of the various
criminal justice student organizations, as well as the criminal justice students
in the University Honors Program.
During the luncheon the Defensor Pacem Medal will be presented to David Crews
of Conroe in honor of his exceptional contributions to the Criminal Justice
Center. Each year the medal is given to an individual who has provided
invaluable assistance to the criminal justice program.
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David Crews
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Crews is credited with introducing and championing House Resolution 469 in the
58th Legislative session in 1963 when he was a state representative. The
resolution created the impetus for Sam Houston State College and the Texas Department
of Corrections to explore the feasibility of developing a continuing program of
statistical research, training and study in criminology, penology, juvenile delinquency
and related fields.
Crews is a 1954 graduate of Baylor University. He received a doctor of jurisprudence
degree from Baylor Law School in 1957. He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives
in 1960 and served four terms. He has been a practicing attorney in Conroe
since 1957.
Daniel Fuentes will also be honored at the luncheon with the Outstanding Criminal
Justice Alumni Award. Since his graduation in 1987, Fuentes has served as
a United States probation and parole officer in the Eastern District of Texas,
where he was responsible for the direct supervision of criminal offenders in pretrial,
probation and parole status.
He was hired as a special agent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1990,
and was assigned to the Houston Division to investigate violations of the agency's
Organized Crime and Drug Program. In 1998 Fuentes transferred to the San
Juan Division where he investigated violent crimes. Later that year, he
transferred to Mexico City to serve as an assistant program manager for drug investigative
matters detailed to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In 2000 Fuentes transferred to the Houston Division to serve as the term supervisory
special agent of the administrative squad and later, of a violent crimes squad,
until his term expired at the end of that year. Last month, he was assigned
as the acting supervisory special agent of the Houston Joint Drug Intelligence
Group.
The special events of the day will conclude with the College of Criminal Justice
Honors Convocation at 7 p.m. in Killinger Auditorium.
C. O. "Brad" Bradford, chief of police of the Houston Police Department, will
be the keynote speaker. Approximately 60 honor students will be recognized
for their high standards of academic achievement, along with scholarship recipients
and donors.
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C. O. "Brad" Bradford
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Bradford began his career with the Houston Police Department in 1979. After
various assignments, he was promoted to assistant chief of police in June 1991,
and was appointed to manage the technical service command. In November 1992
he was assigned to the professional development command, and in January 1996,
to manage the department's largest patrol command. Later that year, he was
named Houston's chief of police.
Bradford graduated with honors with a criminal justice degree from Grambling State
University. He later earned a public administration degree from Texas Southern
University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He is a graduate of executive level
management programs, including the Program for Executives in State and Local Government
at Harvard University. He is also a graduate of the FBI Academy National
Executive Institute and has completed a doctor of jurisprudence degree at the
University of Houston Law Center. He is a licensed attorney and a trained
mediator.
Among his honors are police chief commendations, Officer of the Year for Professionalism,
and the Mayor's Outstanding Leadership Award.
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SHSU Media Contact: Julia May
April 18, 2003
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