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February 23, 2007  Clyde Ensslin at (202) 418-0506
CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN ANNOUNCES HIS INTENTION TO APPOINT 
DEREK POARCH PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU CHIEF
Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin announced his 
intention to appoint Derek Poarch, a North Carolina police chief, as the FCC’s Public Safety and 
Homeland Security Bureau Chief. Chief Poarch, a native of Lenoir, N.C., is presently the 
Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  
In his new role, Chief Poarch will oversee the bureau responsible for FCC activities pertaining to 
public safety, homeland security, emergency management and disaster preparedness.
“Public safety is one of the Commission’s and my top priorities, and I am very pleased 
that Chief Poarch, who is a highly accomplished and nationally respected law enforcement 
officer, has agreed to head our bureau,” Chairman Martin said.
 
Chief Poarch assumed the position of Director of Public Safety at UNC-Chapel Hill on 
September 14, 1998.  In this position, Chief Poarch commands a department of approximately 
300 full and part-time employees providing police, security, emergency communications, 
parking and transportation services to a university community of 45,000 persons that has more 
than a million visitors each year.
UNC’s public safety department is one of only 30 college and university public safety 
agencies in the country that are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law 
Enforcement Agencies Inc.
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