PSST Executive Committee
The PSST board of directors' executive committee is composed of the following individuals:
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Chief Harlin R. McEwen, Chairman
email: chiefhrm(at)pubsaf.com
Chief Harlin McEwen is the elected Chairman of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corporation. He has over 5 decades of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as a career law enforcement officer and administrator.
Chief McEwen started his career as a patrol officer in 1957 and after progressing through the ranks, served as a Chief of Police for more than 20 years, last serving as Chief in the City of Ithaca, NY, where he was instrumental in implementing modern technology and computerization and advancing training and professionalism of the force. During his years of service he served as Coordinator of the Tompkins County Mobile Radio District and as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and Director of the Bureau for Municipal Police, where he was responsible for overseeing the training and registration of all police officers and peace officers in New York State, as well as for the development and implementation of the New York State Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation Program.
In February 1996, Chief McEwen was sworn in by FBI Director Louis Freeh as a Deputy Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with his office at headquarters in Washington, DC. During his tenure at the FBI, he was responsible for oversight of the development and implementation of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 2000 system and the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) and also traveled extensively throughout the United States and internationally, speaking at law enforcement and criminal justice conferences on matters relative to the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services.
Chief McEwen participated as a member of the Steering Committee on the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC) and as a member of the Steering Committee of the FCC Public Safety National Coordinating Committee (NCC). He was a leader in creating the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).
Chief McEwen serves as Chairman of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Communications Committee and previously served as Communications Advisor to the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association, the National Sheriffs' Association and the Major County Sheriffs' Association. He serves on numerous advisory committees and is also an advisor to the FBI, the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and various other organizations.
Chief McEwen is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America, and was the first recipient of the RCA/NPSTC Richard DeMello Award. He is the recipient of the prestigious FBI Medal of Meritorious Achievement and the IACP Lone Star Distinguished Award and in 2006 was named as Honorary President of the IACP.
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Kevin McGinnis, Vice Chairman
email: mcginnis(at)nasemso.org
Kevin McGinnis is Vice Chairman of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corporation. Mr. McGinnis has been a provider of emergency medical services (EMS) and a builder of EMS systems since 1974. He is currently chief of North East Mobile Health Services, the largest paramedic service in Maine.
Since 2000, Mr. McGinnis has been a Program Manager for the National Association of State EMS Officials, specializing in communications systems technology, air medical services, data systems and rural EMS. He continues in this capacity for communications technology and also serves four other national EMS associations as communications technology advisor. From 1986 to 1996 he was EMS director for the state of Maine.
In addition to the PSST, Mr. McGinnis chairs the Department of Homeland Security's SAFECOM Executive Committee, and serves on the Governing Board of the National Public Safety Telecommunicatuions Council. He serves or has served on several FCC committees and councils focused on public safety or EMS communications.
Mr. McGinnis holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Health Care Delivery Systems and a Master of Professional Studies from Cornell University in Hospital and Health Services Administration.
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• Chief Douglas M. Aiken, Secretary-Treasurer
email: daiken(at)imsasafety.org
Chief Douglas M. Aiken is the secretary-treasurer of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust. He has 34 years of career fire, EMS and Haz-Mat experience and is an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues.
Chief Aiken began his public safety career as the Superintendent of Fire Alarm for the Manchester, NH Fire Department in 1976. He became Chief of the Communications Division and Deputy Emergency Management Director in 1988. In 1997 he became the Chief of Lakes Region Mutual Fire Aid (LRMFA), a 36-community Fire, EMS, and Haz-Mat agency covering five counties in central New Hampshire, retiring in May 2011. He continues to serve as a deputy chief at LRMFA on a part time basis. He is the chairman of the New Hampshire Enhanced 9-1-1 Commission. He retired from the New Hampshire Air National Guard in 2007 at the rank of colonel after a forty year military career.
Chief Aiken is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the International Municipal Signal Association (IMSA). He serves as the vice-chairman of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC). He is a former chairman of the board and current chair of the communications committee of IMSA, current president of the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC), past chair of the International Association of Fire Chief’s (IAFC) Communications Committee, Co-chair – Interoperability Working Group – FCC Emergency Response Interoperability Center Public Safety Advisory Committee, member of the SAFECOM Executive Committee, member of the National Advisory Committee of the Congressional Fire Service Institute and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America.
Chief Aiken served on the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC), was a member of the steering committee of the National Coordinating Committee (NCC), and was instrumental in creating NPSTC, the follow-on effort to provide a unified voice for public safety telecommunications needs. e has published numerous articles and is the author of the original IMSA Public Safety Dispatcher Certification program.
Chief Aiken holds a Bachelors Degree in Management from Southern New Hampshire University, an associate degree in Electronic Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and is a graduate of the Air University Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College.
