Leadership

NMSP Chief of Police

Robert Shilling

Chief Robert Shilling

Robert Shilling has served the New Mexico State Police since 1992 when he joined the force as a patrol officer in Animas, Hidalgo County.  Chief Shilling went on to serve as a Sergeant in the uniform bureau in Raton and then as a task supervisor for the Southwestern New Mexico Drug Task Force for the State Police.

After being promoted to Lieutenant in 2000 Shilling served as an assistant commander for Narcotics Investigations, as the agency’s public information officer, a Uniform Bureau assistant commander and assistant commander for Criminal Investigations.

In 2007 Shilling was promoted to Captain and was named the commander of Criminal Investigations.  In October of 2008 he was promoted to Major and was named the Bureau Chief for the Law Enforcement Records Bureau.  In mid-2010 he became the Law Enforcement Program Budget Director and Commander of Investigations.   In January, 2011 Shilling was named as the Acting-Chief of the New Mexico State Police.

Robert Shilling, the father of two, is a New Mexico native who grew up near Silver City and graduated from Cliff High School in 1989.  In 1991 Shilling graduated from the Western New Mexico University police academy and soon after became an officer with the Silver City Police Department before joining the New Mexico State Police.