Independent Police Review Authority

Leadership

1st Deputy Chief Administrator – Scott M. Ando

Scott M. Ando joined IPRA in 2011 after a 33 year law enforcement career, which includes 28 years of service with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  Mr. Ando grew up in northern New Jersey and began his career as an investigator and supervisor with the Bergen County (NJ) Prosecutor’s Office’s Narcotics Task Force in 1978, where he completed Basic Police Training at the Bergen County Law and Public Safety Institute and was certified as a Police Officer by the New Jersey State Police Training Commission.

In 1983, Mr. Ando entered on duty as a Special Agent with DEA in Newark, New Jersey and, after graduating from the DEA Academy, was assigned to the Chicago Field Division office for his first eight years with the agency.  In 1991, Mr. Ando was reassigned to DEA’s Office of Training, in Quantico, Virginia, where he was an Instructor and Course Developer until 1995, at which time he was promoted to the position of Supervisory Special Agent and assigned to DEA’s New Orleans office for the next eight years. 

In 2003, Mr. Ando was reassigned to DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia as an Inspector in the Office of Professional Responsibility, which is DEA’s equivalent to Internal Affairs, where he conducted investigations of integrity-related misconduct and corruption on the part of DEA employees.  In 2005, Mr. Ando was promoted to the rank of Assistant Special Agent in Charge and assigned to DEA’s Board of Professional Conduct, where he was responsible for reviewing internal investigations, making determinations of fact and proposing discipline in all cases of sustained employee misconduct, as well as reviewing DEA shooting investigations and conducting liability assessments for the loss of or damage to government property. 

In 2008, Mr. Ando was reassigned to DEA’s Chicago Field Division office for the second time in his career.  As the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office, Mr. Ando supervised a variety of enforcement groups, including DEA enforcement groups, state and local task forces, a Tactical Diversion Squad, a Mobile Enforcement Team, and several High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force groups focusing on gangs and narcotics, as well as DEA’s offices in central Illinois. 

Mr. Ando earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice in 1979 and a Master of Public Administration in 1988, both from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.  Mr. Ando is a member of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, the Association of Inspectors General, the International Law Enforcement Auditors Association, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 1 (Federal - Washington, D.C.), the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents, ASIS International, the American Society for Public Administration, is a lifetime member and past State Delegate of the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Drug Enforcement Officers Association

Deputy Chief Administrator – William C. Weeden

William Carlos Weeden grew up in the south side neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Beverly. He received his undergraduate degree from Fisk University (Nashville, TN) and his law degree from Howard University (Washington. D.C.).

Mr. Weeden began his public service career with the Cook County State’s Attorney Office where he prosecuted misdemeanor, juvenile and felony cases.  After leaving the State’s Attorney’s Office he established his own criminal defense practice in Chicago. Prior to joining IPRA in 2008, Mr. Weeden was an assistant clinical professor at University of Wisconsin Law School. 

Mr. Weeden has been a visiting professor in Giessen, Germany, and a member of the Office of the Attorney General in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is an active member of the American Red Cross and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.