Bernadine Greene serves as the Director of the Records Division for the Metropolitan Police Department. In her role, Director Greene leads a great team that provides services to the residents of the District of Columbia in line with MPD’s mission of focusing on service, integrity and fairness.
Ms. Greene, known as Bernie, oversees all gun licensing and registration for the District of Columbia as well as, criminal background check and fingerprinting services for the various DC Government Agencies and over 15,000 security guards and special police officers that work in the city. She oversees criminal record sealings and expungements for returning citizens and the archival and retention of MPD records and public reports. In her 17-year career with MPD, Ms. Greene has had opportunities of working in a patrol district as an administrative manager, and briefly in the Equipment and Supplies Branch until named as Director of the Records Division in 2011. She collaborates and partners with other district agencies, the FBI and other federal government agencies ensuring a cooperative spirit in the shared vision of providing what is best for the city and its’ residents.
Ms. Greene came to district government from the private sector with 25 years of extensive leadership and managerial experience in operations, capital projects, budget management and community engagement programming for the Microsoft Corporation and American Multi-Cinema, Incorporated. For Microsoft, Ms. Greene worked on the renovation of the Washington DC Office, the building and establishment of the Reston Virginia Technology Center and the management oversight of the Richmond, Virginia Office. For AMC she had oversight of various movie theatre complexes in the Maryland region.
Ms. Greene received a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Duquesne University, and served as the Director of Operations at the Sheridan Broadcasting Network in Arlington, Virginia and spent many years as a sales and marketing executive with WYCB AM and WRQX FM radio stations in Washington, DC.
In her DC government role, Ms. Greene participates in numerous information sharing collaborative sessions among law enforcement jurisdictions around the country. She has been panel member for the Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute Symposium in 2015 and graduated in the Fourth Cohort from the Executive Leadership Program at the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership in 2018.
Ms. Greene is a native Washingtonian and in her free time, works on community projects and scholarship initiatives as a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in Washington, DC.