Rodney Monroe was sworn in as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief on June 16, 2008. The CMPD is a consolidated city-county department of more than 2000 employees serving more than 713,000 residents and countless others who commute to work here daily or who visit for leisure opportunities.

Before coming to Charlotte, Chief Monroe served as chief of the Richmond, Virginia Police Department (2005 - 08), police chief in Macon, Georgia (2001 - 2005) and as an assistant chief of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. He began his policing career as a police officer in that department in 1979.

Chief Monroe earned a bachelor's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute and holds memberships in the Internaitonal Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).  In 2007 he was awarded the Gartner BI Excellence for a dashboard deployment that blends reporting, alerts, predictive analytics and geographic mapping.