KNOXVILLE, TN – The 2023/2024 Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police (TACP) Board of Directors were recently sworn-in at their 53rd annual Training Conference held in Knoxville.
The TACP Board consists of 19 voting members including the President; Immediate Past President; 1st Vice President; 2nd Vice President; Treasurer; 12 District Directors; a SACOP
Representative, and two At-Large Directors. The President; 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents; Treasurer and Immediate Past President make up the Executive Committee which oversees the general supervision of the affairs of the Association between regular business meetings.
Chief David Crockarell, Clarksville Police Department, was named Director of District 9, which includes Benton, Dickson, Henry, Humphreys, Houston, Montgomery, and Stewart Counties.
Crockarell has been leading the Clarksville Police Department since July 2020.
He joined the Clarksville Police Department in 1995 as a patrolman and steadily rose through the ranks as an investigator, and later as a patrol sergeant for seven years. In 2006 he was promoted to Tactical Unit Commander. He achieved the rank of lieutenant in 2008 and served as Training Director through 2011.
Promoted again to captain, Crockarell served as District One Commander from 2011 to 2017 and as Special Operations Commander in 2017 and 2018. In August 2018, Crockarell was promoted to Operational Deputy Chief, in command of all Policing Districts, the Special Operations Unit, the Traffic and Special Events Unit and the Community Relations Unit.