NJSACOP: Episode 15

Walter Pullen

Walter Pullen serves as the Chief of Detectives for the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP) at its Hamilton headquarters. He has held the position since 2014. He began his career in 1998 as a detective with the state’s Attorneys General office, Division of Criminal Justice, assigned to the Prosecutor’s and Police section. He also was a member of the AG’s Shooting Response Team.

Pullen joined NJOHSP as a counterterrorism investigator following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks where he conducted investigations into suspicious activity related to terrorist activity and developed confidential human sources. In 2005, he was promoted to lieutenant overseeing the investigative squad and the CTWATCH at the Regional Operations and Intelligence Center. Two years later, he was transferred to the FBI’s Newark Division Joint Terrorism Task Force where he was assigned to the Threat Mitigation Squad as a threat coordinator.