Oregon State Police

One of the organizations that organize and sponsor these trainings is the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). JINSA is a think tank that advocates for US-Israeli security cooperation, increased domestic military spending, and military aid to Israel, and has board members with close ties to US defense contractors. JINSA launched its Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) shortly after 9/11, and since 2002 has run annual trips to Israel for US federal, state, and local law enforcement. Over 11,000 additional American law enforcement officials have attended LEEP conferences nationwide, which bring in Israeli security officials as experts.

The State Police of Oregon is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Ron Ruecker served as Superintendent of the Oregon State Police between 1999 and 2006. Ruecker attended a training in Israel with JINSA as a delegate of the LEEP program in November 2005.

He served as the President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He served as Oregon’s Homeland Security Advisor from 2001 to 2004. Shortly after his retirement, he briefly served as the Interim Chief of Sherwood, Oregon‘s police department.

In 2009, he was named Assistant Director of the Office of Law Enforcement Coordination at the FBI. He presented on Use-of-Force data collection for the FBI in 2017 and is listed as the Special Advisor at the Office of Partner Engagement of the FBI.