Lieutenant Colonel Dermot Quinn is a 35-year veteran of the Massachusetts State Police beginning his career in 1983. Lieutenant Colonel Quinn was promoted to Sergeant in 1994, Lieutenant in 2003, Captain in 2005, Major in 2006, and to his current rank in 2015.

Lieutenant Colonel Quinn has been assigned to various duty stations including Field Services, Information Technology Section, Narcotics Section, Attorney General’s State Police Detective Unit, Criminal Information Section and Commonwealth Fusion Center. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and placed in charge of the Division of Investigative Services where he served for two years. In 2017 he was asked to serve as the Division Commander of the newly formed Division of Homeland Security and Preparedness, where he serves today.

Lieutenant Colonel Quinn is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts – Lowell where he earned his BS, MS, and MA. He sits on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Eyewitness Evidence, Represents the State Police on the New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (NEHIDTA) Executive Board and has attended the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminars (LEEDS) for chief executive officers of the nation’s mid-sized law enforcement agencies.