Georgia State Professor Named Distinguished Chair
for Int’l Public Safety

Robert R. Friedmann, has been named distinguished chair of Public Safety Partnerships at the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University.

Dr. Freidmann is professor of criminal justice and founder and director of Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, GILEE, which is housed at Georgia State.   The program has fostered numerous exchanges between law enforcement officials in the U.S. and in nations around the world.

As Georgia State’s first chair of public safety partnerships, Dr. Friedmann will help ensure provision of better public safety in an era of international terrorism, support the efforts of GILEE, promote shared experiences of international best practices and work to increase international cooperation in the area of homeland security.

Founded in 1994, GILEE and the International Law Enforcement Exchange, which builds programs for states other than Georgia, have fostered exchanges between law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Austria, Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, Japan the United Kingdom.