Anthony Celano
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	About Anthony Celano In the world of law enforcement, Mr. Celano served twenty-two years in the NYPD in uniform, as an anti-crime officer, a detective and a detective squad commander.  Some of his assignments included the Queens District Attorney’s Office Squad, the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force, the Organized Crime Control Bureau, the Colombo Organized Crime Task Force during the combo Family Wars of the 1990’s and a number of detective squads.   He was also a special investigator for the Office of the Special State Prosecutor-Nursing Home Investigation.  He retired from the NYPD in 1995. While in law enforcement Mr. Celano’s expertise was in organized crime.  He has testified in a number or organized crime cases in state and federal courts in and out of New York State.   In the private sector, for seventeen years Mr. Celano was the Owner/CEO of Full Security, Inc., a midtown Manhattan investigative firm whose clients included some of the largest and well-known corporations and high net worth individuals.   He created the Streetwise Communication Training Program within his firm with clients that included Morgan Stanley, News Corp, Nassau Community College, Rutgers University, UNLV, Bear Stearn, Marsh & McClennan, Boars Head, NYC Department of Homeless Services, The Times Square Alliance, The 5^th Avenue Business Improvement District and McGraw Hill.   He was an instructor for the Lormans Business Center on Internal Investigations.  Mr. Celano was an instructor on Workplace Violence at Nassau Community College Continuing Education Program for Teacher Certifications.  He was also a motivational speaker for probationers in the New York City Probation Department Nova Ancora Program.  Mr. Celano was a guest on WEVD Radio’s Woman to Woman, featured in a Forbes Magazine article regarding his Streetwise Communication Program, was a panel member at Crain’s New York 12^th Annual Expo, featured in Security and Access Control Magazine and was quoted in Investor’s Daily, the New York Times and Crain’s.  He was a member of several Manhattan based networking groups including the Metropolitan Business Network (MBN), Professional Business Networking Association (PBNA) where he was a board member and Gotham City Networking where he chaired the Bandit Group. Mr. Celano retired from his business in 2017 to pursue a third career in writing a series of Sergeant Markie Mysteries, his first being “The Case of Two in the Trunk”.  (Significance Press, June 2019, Available on Amazon, soft cover, and e-edition)  Mr. Celano has written articles for Security Director Magazine, Security Management Magazine, American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) Best Practices Manual, and the New York Daily News.  He also co-authored the book Basic Security Investigation (Gould Publishing-1996) with the preface written by former NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton. Mr. Celano is the recipient of several awards including the Guardian Angels Citizen of Merit Award, American Legion Award, Drug Enforcement Administration Meritorious Award., the NYPD Commendation, Meritorious Police Duty and Exceptional Police Duty recognitions.  He was the MBN’s Networker of The Year on two occasions. Mr. Celano is currently a Board Member of the private Italian Club the Tiro a Segno of New York and is a Director on the Executive Committee of the Gotham City Networking Foundation. Mr. Celano is currently working on his sixth Sergeant Markie Mystery, the Case of the Amorous Caddy, with a planned publishing date of 2024.
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