Pete Gagliardi is a Senior Vice President at Forensic Technology Inc. the U.S. Subsidiary of the Montreal based parent company Forensic Technology Inc. WAI. The company provides field proven leading-edge products and services to help law enforcement agencies around the world better address the criminal misuse of firearms and more effectively manage information across the entire criminal justice system from the crime scene to judicial disposition. Forensic Technology’s cornerstone product is IBIS – the Integrated Ballistics Identification System. IBIS is a ballistics imaging system that harnesses the power of computers and other technology to match bullet and cartridge case evidence with crime guns. The system’s uncanny ability to find the “needle in a stack of needles” can solve crimes that previously would have gone unsolved. In addition to his more than ten years in the ballistics technology field at at Forensic Technology, Pete has thirty years of law enforcement experience at both the local and Federal levels most of which focused on the investigation of firearms related crimes. He retired as the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division from the United States, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) following 24 years of service in 1999. As Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division, he was responsible for managing all of ATF’s law enforcement and regulatory operations within the New York /New Jersey metropolitan area related to firearms, explosives, arson, alcohol, and tobacco. Pete also held several other senior executive positions while assigned to ATF headquarters in Washington, DC. He has served as the agency’s principal liaison to Congress, the Deputy Assistant Director of Science and Technology, the Deputy Assistant Director of Law Enforcement Programs, and the Chief of Strategic Planning.As a result of these assignments, Pete has acquired and demonstrated a keen sense of awareness of the important factors to be considered in the design of effective violence reduction programs that provide substantial and sustainable benefits for the cop on the street – the policy maker – and the public at large. Many of the programs that Pete was instrumental in institutionalizing in Government continue to receive national and international recognition today.
