Governor McCrory Nominates B.W. Collier SBI Director | Eastern NC Now

    Raleigh, NC — Governor Pat McCrory has nominated Bernard W. (B.W.) Collier II as director of the State Bureau of Investigation. Collier was appointed acting director on August 7, 2014 and was sworn in on August 11, 2014. The SBI director is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the General Assembly for an eight-year term.

    "The SBI has made tremendous progress under B.W. Collier's leadership in a very short period of time," said Governor McCrory. "His intelligence and experience has reformed the agency and I am pleased to nominate him as the official SBI Director. North Carolina is in great hands and I look forward to building on the great progress that B.W. has already made."

    If confirmed, Collier will continue to oversee the operations of more than 300 SBI and Alcohol Law Enforcement special agents located in offices across the state. Prior to his tenure as acting SBI Director, Collier spent 26 years as an SBI special agent, and has been the director of Alcohol Law Enforcement for the past year. During his time with the SBI, Collier served as a drug investigator, pilot, arson and crime scene agent, canine handler, technical agent and bomb squad commander. Collier was director and special agent in charge of the North Carolina Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a SBI section that deals with criminal information and intelligence gathering. He was appointed director of Alcohol Law Enforcement in 2013.

    Collier is a North Carolina native and North Carolina State University graduate. He served in the N.C. Army National Guard from 1983 to 1989. His mother is a retired school teacher and his father is a retired State Highway Patrol lieutenant. Collier and his wife, Ann, have two grown children.

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