The Daily Bulletin Archive

John A. Lombardo has been appointed deputy chief of university police. Lombardo, who has served as interim deputy chief since November 2006, has been on the University Police force since 1985, serving as an investigator since 1991. A  Vietnam-era veteran, Lombardo served as a medic in the U.S. Air Force from 1971 to 1975. He has worked as a New York State corrections officer at Sing Sing, Bedford Hills, and Attica state prisons. Lombardo received the SUNY Police Chiefs Association's award for professionalism in 2003. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University at Buffalo.

Peter M. Carey has been appointed assistant chief of university police. Carey has served Buffalo State for 27 years, as an officer from 1980 to 1997, and as a lieutenant from 1997 to 2007. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member with the Criminal Justice Department. Carey is a practicing attorney with an office in Buffalo who holds a juris doctor from the University at Buffalo Law School and a bachelor of science in criminal justice from Buffalo State College. He has received numerous awards and honors, including SUNY Police Chiefs Association's awards for heroism and for professionalism, the Buffalo State College University Police Chief’s Award for Outstanding Service, the Buffalo State College Outstanding Criminal Justice Alumni Award, and the Buffalo State College United Students Government Hall of Fame Award, as well as many letters of commendation. Carey directed the Philips Medical Systems’ Community Contribution Program in 2004, securing $5,000 for automated external defibrillator equipment. He also acquired four grants totaling $600,000 from 1996 to 2003 from the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, for the hiring of five additional officers and the purchase of computer and radio equipment for the University Police Department.