FCC chair Kevin Martin today announced he intends to appoint a North Carolina university police chief to head the Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Derek Poarch is police chief at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and will take over the FCC’s bureau for handling public safety, homeland security, emergency management and disaster preparedness matters. Poarch has been chief there since 1998, and worked 21 years at the Lenoir (NC) Police Department before that. He has a degree in Social Science from Gardner-Webb University, and a masters degree in criminal justice from the University of South Carolina. His resumé does not mention any political affiliation or previous radio background.
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