Maryland Chapter President
Chief Cleveland A. Barnes, is a 37-year veteran of the UMB Police Force, rising through the ranks from patrol officer. Chief Barnes is credited with updating the police force's training and preparedness during a time of significant campus growth, and amid heightened security concerns following the tragic campus emergencies at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois. The force consists of 66 sworn officers, augmented by 50 security officers, seven communication officers, and eight support staff. It was reaccredited last November by the Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
In addition to overseeing the safety of about 12,000 students and employees at UMB, the campus police force responds to the challenges posed by its busy location on downtown Baltimore's emerging west side. The campus includes two major hospitals, Maryland's largest dental care provider, a major drug treatment facility, and a day care center. It also has expanded across the eight lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard with the growth of the University of Maryland BioPark.
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Past Maryland Chapter Presidents
William Downing
Raymond Grissette
Retired Maryland State Police.
Spencer L. Giles
NOBLE NATIONAL REGION II VICE-PRESIDENT
On May 21 2010, the NOBLE Region II Chapters held its Regional Meeting and Election. Maryland Chapter Member, Chief Spencer L.Giles, Baltimore City Housing Authority Police, was elected the NOBLE Region II Vice President.
Doug Deleaver
2005 Tribute To The Chief Program
PAST NOBLE NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Chief of Police (Retired)
Maryland Transit Administration Police Force
Doug DeLeaver is a 36-year Law Enforcement Officer from the State of Maryland. Doug spent 22 ½ years with the Maryland State Police, entering the State Police Academy in January of 1970 and retiring on July 1, 1992 with the rank of Lieutenant. On July 1, 1992, the Governor of Maryland appointed Doug to the rank of Captain to the Maryland Natural Resources Police. On July 1, 1993, Doug was appointed Major and the executive assistant to the Superintendent of that Department. On December 2, 1998, Doug was appointed to the Maryland Transportation Authority as Director of Strategic Planning, at the request of Colonel Larry Harmel, the Chief of that Agency.
On July 1, 2000, Doug was appointed to the rank of Colonel as the Chief of Police for the Maryland Transit Administration Police Force.
Marcellus “Marc” Boles
PAST NOBLE NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired)
Baltimore Police Department
Marcellus “Marc” Boles joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1967, served in various positions, and retired in 2000, as a lieutenant colonel. He served as vice president and president of the Maryland Chapter, Region II vice president, and subsequently ascended to the National President in 1989.
Bishop L. Robinson
Founding Member of NOBLE
PAST NOBLE NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Commissioner (Retired)
Baltimore Police Department
Bishop L. Robinson was the first African American police commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Douglass High School, Coppin State University and the University of Baltimore school of law, Robinson joined the department in 1952, was a Captain in the Department's Eastern District in 1972, represented the Baltimore Police Department in the founding of NOBLE, a national organization of African American police officers from various American cities in 1976, and rose to the rank of commissioner in 1984. For Robinson's first 14 years in the department until 1966, African American officers were quarantined in rank, not allowed to patrol in white neighborhoods, and barred from the use of squad cars during a time period where the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, and Black Power movements took place. Robinson was elevated to the command of Commissioner in a department long dominated by Irish American officers and briefly dominated by Italian American officers as a means of giving African American officers control of the department as Baltimore City became solidly Majority African American.
