Fred Deltorchio
Investigations, Law Enforcement, Organizational Management
Fred Deltorchio has extensive experience in workplace investigations for public and private clients. He regularly conducts complex investigations concerning misconduct, harassment, or substandard management practices. Fred speaks to Human Resources and Management groups on proper handling of workplace investigations. He has significant experience addressing police personnel issues including recruitment, investigations, evaluation, discipline, and termination.
Fred has over 30 years of Law Enforcement experience and served as the Police Chief and Interim City Manager for the City of Hercules, California. Prior to that, Fred was with the Benicia Police Department for almost 18 years.
As Police Chief for the City of Hercules, Fred coordinated the introduction of the Motorcycle Traffic Unit, the School Resource Officer Program, the Citizen Police Academy, and the “Every 15 Minutes Program”. He provided required Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Training to all Hercules City staff and also personally filed oppositions and represented the Police Department in “Pitchess” motion hearings.
During his tenure as Interim City Manager, Hercules faced a high-profile financial crisis, which required general fund expenditures to be reduced by 30 percent. Fred led successful renegotiations of City contracts with all labor bargaining units and achieved necessary reductions of staff and program expenditures.
Fred has his Juris Doctor Degree from John F. Kennedy University College of Law and is a member of the California Bar Association. He graduated from California State University at Hayward with a Bachelor’s Degree in History. Fred also attended the FBI National Academy and graduated with the 193rd Session.
Written Articles
Ask Mary: How Can I Manage My HR Director’s Performance?
This is Ask Mary, an advice column dedicated to helping public sector leaders address common issues and challenges with grace, humility and wit. In this column, MRG CEO and founding partner Mary Egan offers her unique perspective and wisdom honed over two decades of...
Tune Up Your Team with Organizational Assessments
As part of the HR On-Demand suite of services offered by MRG, I routinely receive requests from HR Directors who will ask me to come to their agency to perform an organizational assessment. They’ll describe a very specific set of problems in their organization in...
Policy Deserts: How A Lack of Policy Puts Your Agency At Risk
In the last eight years working with MRG, I’ve performed organizational assessments at cities across California, often focused on City Clerks’ offices. Recently I’ve noticed an alarming trend of what I’ll call “policy deserts”: policies and procedures are often...
Ask Mary: My Reports Don’t Get Along. I Keep Making It Worse.
Mary responds to a first-time manager who is reluctant to address long-standing enmity between reports on his team.
A New Point of View: The Benefits of Third Party Project Management
Sometimes as HR professionals, the most challenging projects are the ones that feel personal. What’s more emotionally charged than assessing someone’s pay? No matter how excellent the study, or how practiced the HR professional doing the work, there's always the risk...
Ask Mary: Unclear Roles Lead To Project Delays
In this edition of Ask Mary, a project with unclear roles and responsibilities is about to go awry. The writer asks Mary how to get things back on track before delays become inevitable.
Strategic Advising in Times of Uncertainty
Originally published in the CAL-ICMA newsletter How to use experts to augment & support your team In times of rapid change, constrained resources, and rising public expectations, local government leaders increasingly turn to trusted advisors for support for...
Build Better Performance Improvement Plans
As a human resources consultant and personal coach, one of the most common requests I hear from managers is, “I have an employee who is underperforming in their role. How can I hold them accountable?” By the time I receive such a request, the relationship between the...
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Collaboration?
Yes definitely! The desire for a highly collaborative environment can lead to chaos when there is a lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities. Public sector work is complex and requires collaboration across a multitude of internal and external stakeholders....
See you at the CM Conference!
We are thrilled to announce that MRG will be attending the upcoming League of California Cities City Manager Conference! As Elite Sponsors of this prestigious event, we will be at booth #16 — near the registration table—and can't wait to connect with you. Come by and...
Testimonials
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“One word for Fred’s FBOR investigative report: MASTERFUL. He is fantastic. Thank you.”