Harvey L. Radney
Senior Vice President
Harvey L. Radney’s distinguished 37-year career in public service enforcement began with his draft call from the United States Army to serve his nation in 1965. While enlisted, he served one year in South Vietnam and was later honorably discharged in 1967. Because of his heroism, bravery and meritorious actions, Radney was awarded the Bronze Star with “V” device, Bronze Star and the Purple Heart medals.
In 1969, as an extension of his military duty and spirit of serving and protecting, he joined the Chicago Police Department. Due to Radney’s distinguished record in various line and command positions, he was promoted to Deputy Superintendent, Bureau of Investigative Services in 1999 – the third ranking position in the Department.
As Deputy Superintendent, he led the key policy, management and investigative operations involving the follow-up of serious crimes where he developed an intensely personal commitment to apprehending violent sex offenders who prey on the innocence of youth and defenseless. In this capacity, he helped lead the Bureau’s commitment to also providing investigative assistance in criminal matters involving narcotics, gang crime and vice through the Organized Crime Division. Radney retired as the Deputy Superintendent in October 2002.
Following his illustrious 33-year career with the Chicago Police Department, Radney was appointed as the Director of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office Electronic Monitoring program, the world’s largest pre-trial monitoring program. Radney quickly gained a rarely-earned perspective on the challenges of electronic monitoring in Illinois during his tenure as the daily monitoring increased from 1,250 to over 1,700 individuals. Radney is widely credited with enhancing the program’s mission and operational effectiveness. This was dramatically illustrated by the fact that 73% of all participants have successfully completed the monitoring program with a re-arrest rate of only 2% – a rate which is a mere fraction of the national average (17%).
Due to his outstanding professionalism, competence, perception and leadership ability, Radney was selected to attend a series of highly prestigious and competitive management training programs — including the FBI National Academy, the Senior Management Institute for Police at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Intergovernmental Executive Development Program in Chicago.
Throughout his law enforcement career, Radney received numerous departmental awards and honors – including, for example, the Carter Harrison/Lambert Tree Special Honorable Mention, the Richard M. Daley Special Commendation and the Blue Star Award – all of which speak to his dedication, passion and commitment to serving and protecting others.
In 2006, Radney joined Hillard Heintze as the Senior Vice President where he oversees investigative services and security operations protecting professional service firms as well as Class A office properties and business operations. He holds a Top Secret Security Clearance.
