Kim C. Dine, Chief of Police of the Frederick, Maryland Police Department is beginning his fourth decade of policing. Chief Dine retired as an Assistant Chief from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, where he started in 1975 and rose through the ranks from patrol officer to assistant chief. During his tenure, he had various assignments as a patrol officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and inspector, and commander (Deputy Chief) and Assistant Chief.

During his three year tenure as First District Commander, a command of approximately 400 personnel serving downtown Washington, DC, including Capitol Hill, the Southwest Waterfront, and a variety of neighborhoods in parts of all quadrants of the city from public housing to the White House, homicides declined 60% and community policing flourished. His last assignment as an Assistant Chief included command over Internal Affairs, the Force Investigation Teams, the Disciplinary Review Division, the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and management and supervision of the Memorandum of Agreement MPD has with the Department of Justice which created groundbreaking reforms in the agency as a result of Chief Charles Ramsey's and the Metropolitan Police Department's initiation of this historical agreement. Dine has extensive experience in areas of community policing, juvenile issues and prevention, internal investigations and ethical issues in policing, and patrol. This experience and the team of outstanding officials in the Frederick Police Department has allowed the agency to build a new strategy of community policing and raise the bar of responsiveness and service to the community.

Chief Dine holds a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, MD and an MS from American University in Washington, DC, where he was briefly a member of the adjunct faculty. Dine's graduate study at American University included study abroad at the University of London Imperial College of Science and Technology Institute on Drugs, Crime, and Justice in England. Chief Dine is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and is a member of a number of organizations, to include the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association. Dine is a sports enthusiast and wrestled throughout his high school and collegiate career, assuming duties as co-captain of the team and assistant coach his senior year. He is married to a former NASA scientist and now stay-at-home mom with their daughters.