Sund, Steven
Steven A. Sund is a thirty-year law enforcement veteran, author, lecturer, and security consultant. He served for over 25 years with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, rising to the position of Deputy Chief of the elite Special Operations Division. In 2017, Sund was selected as the Assistant Chief of Police for the United States Capitol Police and, on June 13, 2019, was named the tenth Chief of Police, a position he held for 18 months.
Sund has extensive experience in critical incident management, special event security, and active shooter preparedness and response. He has lectured on leadership, crisis management, and security planning for various organizations and taught special event management and incident command for the United States Secret Service and George Washington University. Sund has been a lead planner for numerous major events designated as National Special Security Events (NSSE) and has coordinated the response to four active shooter events and dozens of criminal barricade situations.
Chief Sund holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts in Homeland Security from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also completed the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Police and the FBI's National Executive Institute.