Selwyn Smith is currently the Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC), Public Safety and Border Security (PSBS) Division. HSI is the principal investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security. HSI investigates, disrupts, and dismantles transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and terrorist networks that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States.

As DAD for PSBS, Mr. Smith oversees a wide variety of investigative and special operations programs targeting TCOs involved in human smuggling, narcotics trafficking, racketeering and violent gang activity and other crimes enforced by HSI. These programmatic areas support the targeting of cross-border criminal organizations that exploit America’s legitimate trade, travel, and financial systems for illicit purposes.

Prior to this assignment, he served as the Deputy Special Agent in Charge (DSAC) for the HSI Baltimore Office in Maryland. In this role, Mr. Smith reported directly to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) and provided operational oversight of more than 150 special agents, intelligence analysts and administrative staff covering the full spectrum of HSI investigative activities throughout Maryland.

Mr. Smith served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Director for the National Security Division where he was responsible for overseeing efforts to strategically develop initiatives that supported counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations as well as developing policies that ensured HSI’s equities through its broad range of authorities. His other leadership roles within HSI Headquarters includes serving in the role of Division Chief for Domestic Operations, where he was responsible for supporting investigations attributed to all HSI field offices throughout the United States. Before that assignment, he was the Unit Chief for the Identity and Benefit Fraud Unit and was responsible for directing and managing an investigative program with oversight of HSI criminal investigations targeting major criminal enterprises and networks that posed a threat to public safety through the perpetration of identity and benefit fraud.

Mr. Smith began his law enforcement career in 1995 with the U.S. Customs Service as a United States Customs Inspector in Miami, Florida. He later became a Special Agent with the U.S. Customs Service’s Office of Investigations until his promotion to a Group Supervisor where he led both HSI Miami’s Violent Gang Task Force and HSI Fort Lauderdale’s Border Enforcement Security Task Force. Following these assignments, he served in the role of Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the HSI Fort Lauderdale Office.

Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in CriminalJustice fromFlorida Memorial University in Miami, Florida.