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Kevin Davis (born 1968 or 1969)^[1] is an American police officer and the 11^th Police Chief of the Fairfax County, VA, Police  Department. He previously served with the Prince George’s County, MD, Police Department, retiring as the agency’s Assistant Police Chief before serving as the Police Chief for the Anne Arundel County, MD, Police Department and the 39^th Police Commissioner of the Baltimore, MD, Police Department.

Davis was born in College Park, Maryland, around 1968 or 1969.^[1][2] His grandfather and great-grandfather served as high-ranked firefighters of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, and his father worked as a Prince George's County Police Department police officer.^[3]

Davis holds a bachelor's degree in English from Towson University^[3] and a master's degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University.^[2][4] He graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy and the FBI National Executive Institute.^[2]

Davis currently serves as the 11th Police Chief for the Fairfax County Police Department - Virginia’s largest local police agency and the nation’s 33rd largest.^[5][6]

Davis started his career with the Prince George's County Police Department in 1992. He rose through the ranks before ultimately being promoted to the Assistant Police Chief in 2009.^[3][7] He retired from the Prince George’s County Police Department and was appointed as the Police Chief of the Anne Arundel County Police Department in 2013.^[7][8] In December 2014 he was selected as Deputy Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department and formally appointed to that position the following month, serving under Commissioner Anthony Batts.^[9]

On October 19, 2015, he was appointed as the 39^th Police Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department,^{[10][11][12][13]} following a period of historic unrest and during the Department of Justice’s civil rights investigation. Davis negotiated a federal court-ordered consent decree with DOJ during a Presidential transition of power. Davis later stated that serving as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department was an “honor of his lifetime.”^[14]

On April 23, 2021, Davis was named as the Police Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department, an agency recognized as the safest large jurisdiction in America.^[15] The department faced a staffing shortage in 2022, prompting Davis to declare a staffing emergency in July that year.^[16][17] He later announced a plan to hire additional officers and to modernize the law enforcement agency.^[18] Thereafter, in 2023, a record number of new recruits were admitted into the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy.^[19] Davis serves as a regular featured speaker at MPD's DC Police Leadership Academy.

He has substantial crisis leadership experience in the national spotlight. Davis has built a reputation as a collaborative leader and consensus builder amongst diverse community groups, faith communities, elected officials, law enforcement peers and business partners. Recently asked by the French National Police to detail police officers to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Davis partnered with the Embassy of France to participate along with just three other police departments from the United States.^[20] He inaugurated Northern Virginia’s first Real Time Crime Center in 2022 and serves on the Executive Advisory Board for Cellebrite, an international digital investigations organization.^[21] Davis has been appointed to the University of Virginia’s Center for Public Safety & Justice as a Distinguished Advisory Board member.^[21]

During a stint in the corporate world, Davis served as GardaWorld’s Director of Security Consulting Services and Chief Security Officer for Armored Things in Boston.^[21] He was an adjunct professor at American University and lecturer at The Catholic University of America, both in Washington, D.C. Davis regularly lectures about crisis leadership at the FBI National Academy.^[21]

• Recognized as one of The 50 Most Influential People by the Northern Virginia Magazine^[22]
• Recognized by the Maryland Daily Record as an Influential Marylander^[23]
• Recognized by the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association with its Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service^[24]
• One of 20 alumni from DeMatha Catholic High School to ever receive its Distinguished Alumnus Award^[25]
• Awarded the Key to the City of College Park^[26]
• Named government fellow in the foundation network by the Open Society Foundation^[27]

Davis is married to his wife, Lisa. They have four children together.^[2]