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 Paul J. Browne was appointed the New York City Police Department's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information in January 2004. Previously, he served as the Deputy Commissioner for Administration, Assistant Commissioner for Programs and Policy, and as Director of Special Projects.
Before returning to the Police Department, Deputy Commissioner Browne served with Commissioner Kelly as Senior Policy Advisor in the United States Customs Service and as Chief of Staff in the U. S. Treasury Department's Office of Enforcement. The office provided oversight for the Secret Service, ATF, Customs Service, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and other Treasury enforcement arms. He was also Deputy Director of the International Police Monitors in Haiti, where he helped establish an interim police force during the United States-led "Operation Restore Democracy" in 1994-1995. He was awarded the Commander's Medal for Public Service by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his service there. Deputy Commissioner Browne has also served as press secretary and Chief of Staff for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and as the Public Information Officer for Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and the New York State Court of Appeals. He was also Vice President for Advancement for Marist College.
Before entering government service, Deputy Commissioner Browne was a newspaper reporter, first for the Watertown Daily Times in upstate New York and later as Albany Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News and the New York Law Journal. A native of the Bronx, he received his bachelor's degree from Marist College and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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