Matt Wietbrock currently serves as a Commander of Patrol Services for the Evanston campus of the Northwestern University Police Department, within the Department of Safety and Security. This agency is a fully certified, professional law enforcement agency located in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to Northwestern, Matt worked at Purdue University for 17 years, leaving as Captain of patrol operations for the University’s Police Department. In that role, he supervised the Patrol Division, the Training Unit, and the Communications Unit. These branches had a combined staff of 28 police officers and 12 dispatchers. Matt served both agencies with key leadership of Clery Act compliance. While with the Purdue University Police Department, he was responsible for proper classification of police reports to ensure the accuracy of the institution’s Annual Security Report, and Clery Act required daily crime log. He participated in evaluating crime reports for issuance of timely warnings and emergency notifications. He also served on the agency’s Hate Crime Review Committee. At Northwestern, Matt serves as a police representative at the monthly Clery Act statistics reconciliation meeting.

As an associate with Healy +, he participated in several Clery Act services including data audits, Annual Security Report reviews, and general Clery Act compliance reviews. Data Reviews and Audits to a wide range of clients. In addition to extensive Clery Act experience, Matt served as the Purdue University Police Department’s accreditation manager, responsible for the continued compliance of CALEA (The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc.) accreditation standards, and policy development. He was the Lead Firearms Instructor, Active Threats Response Instructor, and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Specialist. He also served as Deputy Security Coordinator for the 10 Purdue University Polytechnic Institutes, overseeing active threat training, and environmental assessments.

He spent 11 years as a Detective, rising to the rank of Sergeant. While in the Investigations Unit, he served as lead crime scene investigator, and coordinated the agency’s Dignitary Protection Team. He is a certified Medicolegal Death Investigator, Associate Member of the American Academy of Forensic Science, and a 2003 Honor Graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. Matt graduated from Purdue University, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree (BS) Aviation Flight Technology.