Vehicle Ballistic Armoring with Update on Electric Patrol Vehicles

• Latest technology for protecting officers in their patrol cars with case study review of NYPD.

• Update on Electric patrol vehicles current and future

Robert Martinez

Robert S. Martinez retired from the NYPD in January 2023 and is now consulting full time at RSM Fleet Consulting LLC. Robert specializing in Identifying products from around the world that will increase officer safety and fleet efficiencies. Mr. Martinez joined the New York City Police Department in June 1986, through diligence and educational achievement, he rose through the supervisory ranks until being appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Support Services Bureau of the NYPD.

He commanded a bureau that provided logistical and technical support to all commands within the New York City Police Department and services the public through the operations of Fleet Services Division which utilizes over 10,000 vehicles, Property Clerk Division, Central Records Division and Printing Section. He oversaw approximately 800 members of the service and over $179 million in combination of safekeeping and annual budget. Robert earned a Bachelor of Technology degree from New York City Technical College, where he majored in Electro-Mechanical Engineering; and earned a Master of Science Degree in Executive Management from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He also attended the Harvard School of Government in 2011.