Henry Sergent retired as the Chief of the TSA National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program (NEDCTP) in August 2019. He was appointed Chief of the NEDCTP in January 2012 and prior to that, he served as the Deputy Chief, appointed in November 2007.
Mr. Sergent was responsible for the daily oversight, management, training, certification standards, proficiency maintenance, administrative procedures, fiscal budget of $165 million, and overall direction of the NEDCTP. The NEDCTP consists of over 1100 Congressionally funded explosives detection canine teams, comprised of state and local jurisdiction law enforcement officers as well as federal canine handlers throughout the United States and its territories. NEDCTP canine teams are deployed throughout most of the nation’s major aviation, mass transit/rail and maritime transportation systems.
The NEDCTP is the largest state/local law enforcement and federal employee explosives detection canine team program in the United States and is just behind the Department of Defense Military Work Dog Program in having the second largest explosives detection canine team program in the U.S. Government.
Before his appointment to the NEDCTP, Mr. Sergent served as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer for approximately 28 years. His career started as an airport police officer with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He then served with the United States Secret Service (USSS), where his career spanned 22 years, including 7 years as a canine handler certified in both patrol and explosives detection. While with the USSS, Mr. Sergent attended the Improvised Explosives Devices Familiarization Course at the U.S. Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal at Indian Head, MD. In the months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States Congress created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Mr. Sergent retired from the USSS and took a position there. At TSA he spent nearly six years as a Special Agent assigned to the TSA Office of Security and attained the position of Deputy Associate Director of the Physical Security Division prior to his appointment to the NEDCTP.
Mr. Sergent is a member of the United States Police Canine Association (USPCA) and has more than 33 years of progressive canine handling, training, judging/certification, administrative and executive experience in the police canine field. Additionally, he is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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