Charles B. DeWitt, is an American government official who served at the White House Office and the United States Department of Justice.
While at the White House, he coordinated policy issues with the Departments of Justice, Treasury, and Defense, as well as the intelligence community.
He approved hundreds of grants to law enforcement agencies to demonstrate innovations in policing that are operational today.
The Director advises the Attorney General, and exercises sole and final authority over Federal grants and contracts for more than 500 active projects.
Also in this position, he developed and executed reorganization plan, including new Technology and Evaluation Divisions, and established initiatives on corrections, gangs; counterterrorism; information systems for police; DNA fingerprinting and evidence systems; police use of force; environmental crime; non-lethal weapons; stalking; and white collar crime.