Walter Allen III
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Walter Allen III Alumni Association Representative Council Member B.S., Regional & Urban Planning, 1975 |
Walter Allen is a council member in the city of Covina, director of the Rio Hondo Police Academy at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, and a proud member of the Cal Poly Pomona Alumni Association board of directors. Allen also serves on the Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services board and is the current chairman of the board of directors for Citrus Valley Health Partners, which provides management and oversight of three non-profit hospitals. Allen also serves as a member of the Metrolink board of directors and the League of California Cities Public Safety Committee.
In 2003, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Allen as director of the California Youth Authority which, at the time, was the largest juvenile correctional system in the nation, housing and supervising over 10,000 juvenile offenders throughout out the state and managing over 5,000 employees, with an operating budget of over $400 million dollars. In 2005, Schwarzenegger appointed Allen as the assistant secretary of the newly created Office of Correctional Safety (OCS) for the newly reorganized California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The OCS provides oversight to all law enforcement, safety and security issues in all state run youth and adult correctional prison facilities throughout the state. In November 2009, he was appointed to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training by Gov. Schwarzenegger and also served as a deputy commissioner for the board of parole hearings through June 2013. He has been in the law enforcement profession for more than 43 years and is a graduate of the 172nd session of the FBI National Academy.