Alfred Miller

Alfred “Fred” Miller served over 40 years with the Prince William County, Virginia Police Department. His career experience included school resource officer, crimes against children investigator, state certified crime prevention specialist, and accreditation and policy manager. He held progressively responsible assignments in the criminal investigations, operations, and support services divisions, including evening operations commander; criminal justice training academy director; public safety communications director; and deputy criminal investigations commander responsible for the special victims, youth services, and financial & property crimes bureaus. He was an incident management team section chief and crisis intervention team coordinator.

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Fred retired from the department in 2019 to be the senior manager of training programs for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) where he managed the Missing Kids Readiness Program and training to law enforcement, emergency communications, state missing clearinghouses and other child serving professionals to prevent child abductions, find missing children and deter and combat child sexual exploitation.

Fred retired from full-time work with NCMEC in 2025, now a part-time Team Adam Consultant. In this role, he assists law enforcement and families in cases of critically missing and long-term missing children, child reunification services during disasters, and supports NCMEC’s outreach initiatives.

In 1996 Fred became an assessor for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) and has been an assessment team leader since 2006. From 2004 through 2018 he leveraged his experience in law enforcement and as a former volunteer firefighter/emergency medical technician to be an adjunct instructor for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management instructing incident command and emergency management courses to support prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery efforts to save lives and property from all hazards and improve response systems.

Fred has participated in developing missing children model policies for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and NCMEC, and national standards on missing children calls for the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, International (APCO). He contributed to co-branded first responder checklists, guides and search protocols for missing children on the autism spectrum. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Justice from American University and a Master’s degree in Management from National Louis University. Fred completed executive and leadership training at Boston University, the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and North Carolina State University. He is a lifetime member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and member of APCO and IACP, including IACP’s juvenile justice and child protection committee.

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