Dan Oates

Personal life Oates was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He received the award from a Troop chartered to the Church of the Nativity in Midland Park.

Education Oates attended Saint Joseph Regional High School and graduated in 1973. He went on to receive his Juris Doctor cum laude from New York Law School in June 1986 and to receive a master's degree from New York University. Oates is licensed to practice law in Colorado, New York, and New Jersey. There, he was part of the executive staff of Howard Safir, the New York City Police Commissioner. Oates oversaw the emergency and fire department in addition to the police department. In a remark on the booby traps in the suspect's apartment, Oates stated that the apartment was rigged "to kill whoever entered it".

Positions held Former president of the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police Chairperson of the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium Member of Police Executive Research Forum Member of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council

Awards Oates received the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police Ralph Smith Innovation Award in 2008.

Oates received his Eagle Scout Award in 1969.