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| SMcRT Leadership
 Administrative Commander
Sgt. Jeff Lyle (Boston Hts. PD)
Sgt. Jeff Lyle is our Adminstrative Commander and handles the business side of the organization. Lyle also is tasked with the
responsibilty of being a liason to other agencies both public and
private. Lyle has been a long standing asset to our Unit, serving as a evidence photographer, Assistant Team Leader and vehicle inspection expert. It is Lyle's driving
force that has brought many valuable resources to the unit in the form of advanced equipment and skill sets. Lyle also serves with one of our response teams. Sgt. Lyle is a veteran officer with the Boston Heights Police Department.
 Operations Commander
Ofc. Brian Battaglia (Hudson PD)
Ofc. Brian Battaglia is our Operations Commander who is tasked with the responsibility of enacting our policies and protocols, making sure that response teams are properly staffed and that final reports are properly reviewed and submitted in a timely manner to the requesting agencies. Battaglia also serves as a Response Team Leader and in that capacity is responsible for on-scene operations as well as the overall operations of the Unit.
Battaglia is a veteran officer with the Hudson Police Department.  Assistant Operations Commander
Ofc. Rob Molody (Stow PD)
Ofc. Rob Molody
is the Assistant Operations Commander who is tasked with the responsibility of triageing incoming calls for Unit response and helping to assure that response teams are
properly staffed.
As a Crash Reconstruction expert and an active member of one of our Response Teams, Molody also performs peer review of active investigations, assuring accuracy and timely submission of the reports to requesting agencies.
Molody is a veteran officer with the Stow Police Department.  Response Team Leader
Ofc. Robert Gilbert Sr. (Richfield Twp. PD)
Officer Robert Gilbert is the second of our two Team Leaders and is tasked with coordinating the investigations "on-scene" when Unit response is requested.
The longest serving Team Leader, Gilbert is a highly skilled and experienced Crash Reconstruction expert and is proficient with a wide variety of investigative equipment which is transported to the scene of a crash investigation in a mobile command trailer that Gilbert purchased and outfitted at his own expense.
Gilbert is a veteran officer with the Richfield Township Police Department. Executive Steering Committee
Comprised of our Professional Advisor Lt. Chuck Veppert (OSP Ret) along with Sgt. Dann Nivens, Ofc. Jonathan Bastock, Ofc. Bob Brinkley and Sgt. Steve Brown, the Executive Steering Committee is the governing body that provides oversight and direction to the SMcRT.
Responsible for developing policies, protocols, and establishing best practices for the Unit, the Steering Committee meets quarterly to review SMcRT performance and objectives and is responsible to assure that the Unit is staffed with the most professional crash investigators available in our area.
Some of the members of this committee are "founding fathers" while others have long been associated with the SMcRT since the earliest days of it's inception. These officers hold the Unit true to it's original mandate to provide the highest quality crash investigations to participating agencies; sharing equipment, personnel, skill sets and expertise for the benefit of all involved and building bridges between individual agencies and bringing together the best and the brightest investigators in Summit County.
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