Collins Appointed to Policing Strategies Working Group

9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins will serve on a Congressional working group looking at policing strategies.

Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking Member John Conyers announced the establishment of a working group to examine police accountability, aggression towards law enforcement, and public safety concerns related to these issues.

Collins was appointed to that working group.

His office said the bipartisan working group will hold a series of roundtables, starting with a private roundtable in Washington, D.C., to candidly discuss the issues fueling excessive force used by law enforcement and attacks against police officers and will invite outside leaders on this issue to meet with the working group.

In being named to serve on the group, Collins said recent events in America have brought forth a national discussion on violence, law enforcement, community relations, and accountability and he says he is honored to be named to this working group, where he will draw upon my life experiences as a Baptist Pastor, an attorney, and the son of a Georgia State Trooper, to help foster a productive dialogue.

Collins said the group is not there to point fingers, but rather to find solutions to the issues that are on the hearts and minds of so many Americans.