Ricky G. Adams is a retired

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General Officer with service in the

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and as an American police officer in the

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Education

Adams holds a Master of Strategic Studies Degree from the US Army War College and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Oklahoma. He is a 2001 graduate of the FBI National Academy and a 2016 graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute. He is also a graduate of the CAPSTONE Program at the National Defense University; National Security Management Course at Syracuse University; JTF Commander Course; Harvard University's Black Sea Security Program and General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar; Joint Flag Officer War Fighter Course, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Senior Executive Seminar, Garmisch, Germany.

Career

Major General (retired) Adams is an Afghan War veteran who retired in 2014 after over 35 years of service in the US Army National Guard. Among his previous executive level military assignments are: Deputy Commanding General National Guard, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, Virginia; Assistant Adjutant General – Oklahoma ARNG; Deputy Commanding General - ARNG, Field Artillery Center, Fort Sill; Director-Police Reform Directorate, Kabul, Afghanistan; Deputy Assistant Commandant, United States Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill; Commander of the 45th Field Artillery Brigade; and Commander of the 1BN 171st FA MLRS - Oklahoma ARNG. Among his highest military awards are the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit-twice, and the Bronze Star Medal. Adams was also inducted into the Oklahoma National Guard's Officer Candidate School (OCS) Hall of Fame in 2014 and the U.S. Field Artillery Hall of Fame in 2024. As an

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, Adams began his career at the municipal level with the Elk City and Edmond Police Departments from 1980-1986, before joining the ranks of the

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(OHP). Adams was an honor graduate of the 42nd OHP Academy in 1986. He then continued a 32-year career, serving at every level within the Highway Patrol from Trooper to Deputy Chief before being selected as the Assistant Commissioner for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety in 2011. Then in 2013 was selected as the 26th Chief of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol serving with distinction in that position until retiring from the patrol in 2018 and accepting a position as the Deputy Director for the

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(OSBI). On July 1, 2018, Adams was chosen as the Director of the OSBI by unanimous vote of the OSBI Commission and served in that position until his retirement in 2022. During his career he led many major OSBI and OHP investigations, created the OSBI's extraordinarily successful Cold Case Unit, significantly improved the bureau’s ICAC Unit and was recognized for leading the OSBI to their highest level of operational effectiveness in their nearly 100-year history. With his selection as the OSBI's Director in 2018, he became the only state law enforcement officer to rise through the ranks to lead both of Oklahoma's largest state police agencies.

References

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/7158/oklahoma-highway-patrolman-guides-police-reform-directorate-afghanistan Colonel Rick Adams, Police Reform Directorate: Overview—Current Operations and Strategic. Initiatives (Kabul: Combined Security Transition Command—Afghanistan, 2006) https://www.woodwardnews.net/news/adams-to-lead-osbi/article_85c23a00-59f8-11e8-8a6c-df3d714df3b6.html

External links

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