STEVEN J. PIROTTE

Steven J. Pirotte is a native of Cawker City, Kansas, and graduated from Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey.  He has done graduate work at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and the Naval War College in Washington, DC.  He and his wife of 32 years are proud parents of two daughters and reside in Denver, North Carolina.

Steven J. Pirotte began his Federal law enforcement career in 1975 as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in Washington, DC. serving later in ATF offices in Winchester, VA, and Denver, CO.  While assigned to ATF’s Denver office, he was assigned to ATF’s National Response Team, investigating bombings, explosive incidents and suspicious fires throughout the United States.

In 1986, he was promoted to Baltimore, Maryland, coordinating organized crime drug investigations in the Mid-Atlantic states and in 1989, he established an office under the auspices of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington, DC, focusing on violent crime and firearms trafficking in Washington, DC.  

In 1990, he was assigned to ATF Headquarters where he implemented ATF’s program under the Undetectable Firearms Act, working closely with the Federal Aviation Administration and private industry. This initiative, for the first time, established Federal standards and design requirements for new generations of low-ferrous composite weapons being developed that were able to defeat standard electronic detection equipment.  These standards are still being used today to determine delectability thresholds for newly designed firearms. 

In 1994, Mr. Pirotte was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Charlotte Field Division, responsible for offices throughout North and South Carolina.  He personally directed investigations of over 100 suspicious church fires throughout both states, which received widespread national attention.  Mr. Pirotte received several awards for his work on these investigations for achieving unprecedented investigative success and arrests on church fires determined to be arson. 

In 1997, he was appointed by then Director John Magaw to ATF’s Executive Management Staff as Executive Assistant for Legislative Affairs.  Representing ATF on Capitol Hill, Mr. Pirotte provided the planning and execution of all Congressional-related activities, working with the White House, members of Congress, and the Treasury Department on ATF’s appropriations and legislative matters. 

Appointed in 1999 as Division Director and Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division, Mr. Pirotte headed ATF’s largest field division.  He was responsible for directing ATF’s criminal enforcement and regulatory oversight throughout the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and upstate New York.  One notable case during his tenure involved the identification and prosecution of a major stolen firearms network stealing and diverting newly manufactured U.S. military weapons through Logan International Airport in Boston.

In 2000, Mr. Pirotte retired from ATF to start his own law enforcement consulting business in North Carolina.  However, still serving as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Naval Reserve, he was recalled to active duty following the events of September 11, 2001, as an agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.  He was assigned to the Commander in Chief, Naval Forces Europe, as a force protection, counter-intelligence, and counter-terrorism expert in 39 countries throughout Europe and Africa.  He conducted the Navy’s principle threat assessments and port vulnerability studies for seaports and airfields throughout Great Britain and the Baltic nations of Germany, Poland, Estonia and Latvia.  Re-assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, Mr. Pirotte conducted force protection and counter-terrorism operations at U.S. Navy ports, facilities and air bases throughout the East coast, until his release from active duty in July 2002.

In 2002, he was again recalled to active duty by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and assigned to DIA’s Directorate of Homeland Security, Counter-Terrorism Operations Group and served as DIA’s counter-terrorism representative to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Charlotte, NC.  Released from active duty in December 2003, Mr. Pirotte remains in the U.S. Naval Reserve as an Intelligence Officer and is assigned to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Norfolk, Virginia, where he continues to be involved in force protection and counter-terrorism operations and initiatives.

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