By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Timothy R. Slater, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office, is going to lead the Washington Field Office.
The Washington Field Office, which covers Washington and Northern Virginia, is one of three FBI field offices led by an assistant director in charge.
Slater’s career with the FBI began in 1999 as a special agent assigned to the Violent Crimes Task Force in Detroit. In 2013, Slater as assigned to Detroit’s satellite office in Flint before moving to Palm Beach Resident Agency in 2016.
Slater was promoted in 2007 to supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters. A year later, he moved to Oklahoma to supervise four resident agencies in the state.
In 2010, Slater became a unit chief in the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), which coordinates and manages the FBI’s tactical, negotiations, behavioral analysis, surveillance and aviation; the Strategic Information and Operations Center; and crisis management resources.
In 2013, he served as an assistant special agent in charge of the Knoxville Field Office before returning to CIRG, where he served as a section chief in 2014 and a deputy assistant director in 2015.
Briefly Slater was the special agent in charge of the Denver Field Office in 2016 before becoming the special agent in charge of the Criminal/Cyber Division at the Washington Field Office later that year.
In 2018, Slater took over the Detroit Field Office.
