Jeffrey B. Miller, AA, BS, MPA, was the former commissioner

Police commissioner

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 of the Pennsylvania State Police

Pennsylvania State Police

The Pennsylvania State Police is the state police force of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. It was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, in response to the private police forces used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes and the inability or...

. Miller, a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...

, served in that position from March 24, 2003, after being confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate

Pennsylvania State Senate

The Pennsylvania State Senate has been meeting since 1791. It is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such...

, until August 8, 2008.

Education

Miller is a 1981 graduate of Central Dauphin High School

Central Dauphin High School

Central Dauphin High School is a public high school located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania one of two high schools in the Central Dauphin School District, and the first built in the school district.-History:...

 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...

. He was awarded an A.A. by the University of South Florida. Miller later earned his BS, criminal justice, from Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College is a small comprehensive college located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. The school was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren...

 and a M.P.A. for the Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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Pennsylvania State Police

Miller enlisted with the state police in 1984. He went on to become a member of the fifty-sixth graduating class of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy in Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey is a census-designated place in Derry Township, Dauphin County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The community is located 14 miles east of Harrisburg and is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hershey has no legal status as an incorporated municipality...

. He then moved through the ranks, attaining: Corporal

Corporal

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 in 1988, Sergeant

Sergeant

Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....

 in 1990, Lieutenant in 1993, Captain

Police captain

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 in 1995, and Major in January 2002.

On January 9, 2003, Governor Edward G. Rendell nominated Miller to become 18th Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police

Pennsylvania State Police

The Pennsylvania State Police is the state police force of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. It was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, in response to the private police forces used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes and the inability or...

, a Cabinet-level post. Col. Miller was unanimously confirmed by the Senate of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania State Senate

The Pennsylvania State Senate has been meeting since 1791. It is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such...

 March 24, 2003.

Miller is known for his handling of the Amish school shooting

Amish school shooting

The Amish school shooting was a shooting at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006...

 in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania

Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania

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Miller retired from the PSP on August 8, 2008. Command was temporarily transferred to Lt. Colonel Frank Pawlowski

Frank Pawlowski

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National Football League

Following his career with the Pennsylvania State Police, Miller accepted a position with the National Football League

National Football League

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(NFL). He currently serves as the league's "Director of Strategic Security", a newly created position. Miller will police fan behavior, stadium security, even cheating by teams.