Ashan Benedict

Assistant Chief Ashan M. Benedict (ret.) currently serves as a Public Safety Executive at Peregrine Technologies. Assistant Chief Benedict retired after serving over 30 years in federal and local law enforcement and leadership positions.

Assistant Chief Benedict joined the United States Capitol Police (USCP) on December 4, 2023, and served for two years, providing executive oversight for multiple National Special Security Events (NSSEs). The NSSEs included the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the Certification of the Presidential Election, Presidential Inauguration, and former President Jimmy Carter’s Funeral.

Assistant Chief Benedict joined the USCP after managing the day-to-day operations of one of the country’s largest law enforcement agencies, Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), as well as serving as a Special Agent in Charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Before joining the Metropolitan Police Department as the Executive Assistant Chief, Assistant Chief Benedict served with ATF in major posts including New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, as well as Washington, DC, where he served as the Special Agent in Charge. He also served as Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division and became a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES).

Assistant Chief Benedict began his ATF career as a special agent assigned to ATF’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force in Washington, DC. As a street agent, he investigated violent drug trafficking organizations, armed robberies, armed carjackings, gang-related racketeering murders and firearms trafficking. Assistant Chief Benedict was involved in ATF’s response during the September 11^th terrorist attack, the Beltway Sniper investigation, ATF’s response after Hurricane Katrina, the DC Navy Yard shooting, the San Bernardino mass shooting in 2015, the mass mailing of pipe bombs in New York City in 2018 and multiple complex violent crime investigations throughout the Nation. Assistant Chief Benedict spent several years of his ATF career as a tactical operator assigned to the Special Response Team (SRT).

Assistant Chief Benedict is a New York City native and grew up in The Bronx and Yonkers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Fordham University and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Syracuse University, Maxwell School in Washington, DC. He and his wife have three children and live in Washington, DC.