Arizona DPS seeks international presence with foreign intelligence officers
Colonel Glover · How Founders Can Build for Law Enforcement and First Responders | The a16z Show · May 18, 2026 · at 6:35
Colonel Jeffrey Glover, Director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, discusses intelligence gathering initiatives and cross-border cooperation.
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“One of the things in Arizona that I'm doing is I'm leaning heavily into making sure that we're having sort of an international presence as well. So we have a lot of partnerships with different groups, especially, you know, of course we are a border state, so we have the state of Sonora, Mexico, that's right next to us. We're looking at being able to have the ability of having intelligence officers from Mexico, from the UAE, from Liberia, from different parts of the world, because the world is getting a lot smaller.”
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