Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Department of Public Safety, today announced that she will retire in January.
“My goal from day one was to increase diversity throughout our ranks, to more accurately reflect the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic communities our agency serves,” Colonel Assumpico said. “I am immensely proud of the steps we have taken to achieve this goal, including promoting women and minorities in all ranks and creating a new recruitment process that resulted in a record number of women and minority recruits for the State Police Training Academy Class that is scheduled to begin on January 14, 2019. I have full confidence that these new recruits will help our agency better serve and protect members of all communities throughout our state.”
Colonel Assumpico was appointed as Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Department of Public Safety on November 3, 2016, becoming the first woman to lead the agency since it was founded in 1925. She was the 13th superintendent of the agency.
Colonel Assumpico, who has been a law enforcement officer for 42 years, has been a member of the Rhode Island State Police since 1992. Previously, she served as a Correctional Officer at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions for eight years and then joined the Coventry Police Department, where she served for ten years.
“I am proud of the efforts we have made over these past two years and believe we have set a good path for the future, to help continue the agency’s storied traditions of providing service with excellence while also ensuring that our troopers truly reflect members of the communities we serve now and, in the future,” Colonel Assumpico said.
