Tyree Cedric Blocker (August 29, 1952 – March 2, 2024) was a law enforcement official who rose in the ranks of the Pennsylvania State Police serving as commissioner from 2015 until his retirement in 2018.
[1][2] Blocker began his career with the state police as a trooper in 1973 serving in troops F, L and J.
[5] In 1996 he was promoted to major overseeing Section III (Delaware Valley area of Pennsylvania).
In 2005 Blocker left the state police and was a senior adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service then later adviser to the minister of national security for the Trinidad and Tobago government.
[6][7] In the summer of 2015 Blocker was nominated by governor Tom Wolf to oversee the state's police force.