Lee Drummond

Lee Drummond, Club President, 2000-2001

Oliver "Lee" Drummond was the Director of Public Safety for the City of Marina, California. He has over nine years experience as a city manager (Sanger,CA) and served over ten years as chief of police(Oceanside and Hanford, CA). He is a past president of the Police Chiefs for the League of California Cities and former member of the Board of Directors for the California Police Chiefs Association.

Lee holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology from California State University Long Beach, an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Executive Management from Pacific Christian College and an Honorary Doctorate from Van Norman University, Los Angeles College of Law. He is a graduate of the California Military Academy and was commissioned as an Army Officer in the Military Police Corps prior to serving as Police Academy Commander, S.W.A.T. Team Operations and Training Officer, Detective Commander and Area Commander for the Santa Ana Police Department.

Lee was instrumental in the development of Santa Ana's Community Oriented Policing (C.O.P.), a nationally recognized program. He served as the Assistant Project Coordinator for the C.O.P. grant and co-authored the Prescriptive Package for the implementation of Community Oriented Policing (Santa Ana was one of the initial six federal grant sites for C.O.P.).

Chief Drummond has assisted numerous police agencies involved in litigation and has qualified in State and Federal Courts as a police training, tactics and procedures expert. He was one of the initial three experts invited to address members of the Los Angeles City Council regarding the highly publicized Rodney King beating incident. He later testified as an expert witness in the King/L.A.P.D. federal trial.