Chief Deputy United States Marshal
Kevin M. Platts

Kevin graduated from the Basic Deputy U.S. Marshal Academy in 1988 and has been the Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal for the District of Idaho since 2001.  Kevin’s prior positions that he has held with the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency are those of an Assistant Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal, a Supervisory Criminal Investigator, an Inspector for the Federal Witness Protection Program, a Criminal Investigator, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, a District Security Officer and as a Student Volunteer in Florida, Virginia, and Texas. 

Kevin is a committee member of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Office of Inspection’s Compliance Review Team, Prisoner Operation Division’s Detention Management Committee, District Staffing Model Data Validation Work Group and on the USMS Director’s District Allocation Working Group as a senior management representative for field operations with 5 other Chief Deputy U.S. Marshals.

Kevin has a Master of Science degree from the University of Louisville in the Administration of Justice and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida in Criminology.  Kevin is also a 2004 graduate of the FBI National Academy and serves as a selection committee member for the Montana-Idaho Chapter of FBI National Academy Associates.  Kevin is the Idaho Chapter President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. 

Kevin is a Den Leader in the Cub Scouts program and has received his Boys Scouts of America Wood Badge.  Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, friends, neighbors and co-workers, hunting big game animals, camping, hiking, fishing, boating and snowmobiling in the mountains of Idaho.

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