[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 6, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





         TRIBUTE HONORING DR. R.A. GREGG, COMMISSIONER, NYSCAB

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                             HON. MAX ROSE

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 6, 2019

  Mr. ROSE of New York. Madam Speaker, I respectfully ask that you and 
my other distinguished colleagues join me in honoring Dr. R.A. Gregg 
for his consistently remarkable dedication to community affairs, 
community-police relations and his longstanding commitment to improving 
our community.
   While Dr. Gregg has a varied professional portfolio ranging from 
Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of a community affairs 
nonprofit organization that serves New York State to political campaign 
committee Chairman to Director of Operations for a family established 
boutique law firm, his dedication to providing community affairs and 
improving community-police relations can be seen in all his endeavors. 
Most recently, Dr. Gregg was appointed the first Commissioner of the 
New York State Community Affairs Bureau, a nonprofit organization, by 
its Board of Governors. The NYSCAB is a volunteer organization 
comprised of community, nonprofit and clergy leaders as well as 
current, former and retired law enforcement officers and law 
enforcement and government officials that provides quality community 
affairs services to New York State, New York City and its residents.
   Beyond his dedication to ensuring that quality community affairs 
services are provided to New York State, New York City and its 
residents, Commissioner Gregg has a passion for community-police 
relations. He is active in the law enforcement community and serves as 
a Chaplain or Chaplain (ex-officio) for numerous organizations 
including the New York City Department of Correction's Correction 
Officers' Benevolent Association (COBA), the New York State Court 
Officers Association, the New York City Police Department's Detectives 
Endowment Association (DEA) and the New York City Police Department's 
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), among others. He also serves 
as the Chief of the Chaplains Unit for the Law Enforcement Employees 
Benevolent Association (LEEBA). Upon being appointed Commissioner of 
NYSCAB, he established the NYSCAB Volunteers in Police Service Unit to 
oversee and run the VIPS Program which is a locally-driven Citizen 
Corps program that allows community members to offer their time and 
talents to NYSCAB and local law enforcement agencies. The VIPS program 
is managed and implemented by the International Association of Chiefs 
of Police (IACP) and has registered the NYSCAB VIPS with the national 
VIPS program.
   For many years Dr. Gregg has been active in civic organizations. He 
serves as a Member of the Board of Directors or as a Member of the 
following organizations: Archdiocese of New York (Regional Advisory 
Board Member and School Advisory Board Member), African American Clergy 
& Elected Officials--Brooklyn (Member), Bronx Clergy Task Force 
(Member), the Global Alliance of Hispanic Law Enforcement Professionals 
(Chair, Board of Chaplains), God's Whisper Burial Fund (Vice Chairman), 
the International Conference of Police Chaplains (Member), the National 
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Member), 
National Baptist Convention (Member), the National Organization of 
Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) (Regular Member), Clergy 
Leaders Council (Member) and Occupy the Block (a Founding Member).
   Each aspect of Dr. Gregg's service to the community speaks to his 
complete nature and his dedication to improving the quality of life for 
the residents of the community as well as for the police community. I 
am proud to say that we have someone like Dr. R.A. Gregg living in our 
community and am very grateful for all the work he has done and 
continues to do to improve our community.
   Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure and admiration that I stand 
before you today to honor Dr. R.A. Gregg for his many years of selfless 
and compassionate service to the Staten Island and Brooklyn community, 
and to all of our community's residents and acknowledge his latest 
recognition which he shall receive at the 2019 Somos Albany Conference 
held March 8-10, 2019 as well as recognize Dr. Gregg's milestone 
birthday which is on March 9th.

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