BIG FOR DISCIPLINE
COMMAND-LEVEL EXPERIENCE
SOLUTIONS BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD
Big-4 discipline. Command-level experience. Solutions built for the real world.
Walsh | Rook Advisory was built around a gap we consistently see in public safety consulting: firms often understand either risk methodology or the realities of policing—but rarely both.
Our approach combines Big Four risk, governance, and advisory experience with more than 20 years of law enforcement leadership, operational management, and executive decision-making. That gives us a perspective that reaches beyond policy review, benchmarking, or data analysis alone.
We understand how to assess an organization systematically—its structure, controls, policies, people, decision-making, and exposure—but we also understand what happens when those systems are tested at 2:00 a.m., during a critical deployment, under staffing pressure, or when a chief has to defend a decision to elected officials, attorneys, the media, and the community.
We don't stop at identifying risk. We help agencies solve it.
Our work is designed to convert analysis into practical, defensible, and implementable solutions. Recommendations are grounded in established risk-management principles, contemporary public-safety standards, case law, organizational data, and—equally important—practices that have been tested through actual command and operational experience.
That combination allows Walsh | Rook to look beyond individual incidents and identify the systems behind them: supervision, training, policy, culture, documentation, staffing, leadership, and organizational design.
The goal is not another report that sits on a shelf.
It is to leave an organization stronger, more defensible, more effective, and better prepared for what comes next.
SAMANTHA WALSH
Senior Consultant & Co-Founder
Samantha Walsh brings a risk-management perspective shaped by experience with KPMG and RSM, where she worked within complex environments requiring disciplined analysis, governance, internal controls, and organizational risk assessment.
Her experience extends well beyond traditional consulting. As a co-founder and executive of Hurricane Creek K9, Samantha has applied enterprise risk principles inside a working public-safety organization—helping build programs, manage government relationships, evaluate operational exposure, and turn analysis into solutions that function in practice.
At Walsh | Rook, Samantha leads engagements involving organizational risk, operational assessment, governance, process improvement, liability reduction, and strategic planning. Her approach combines the rigor expected from major professional-services firms with an understanding that recommendations must ultimately work for the people responsible for implementing them.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of ScienceDiplomacy & International Relations
Seton Hall University
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Enterprise Risk Management
Organizational & Operational Assessment
Governance & Internal Controls
Strategic Planning
Process & Performance Improvement
Public Safety Risk & Liability
Government & Stakeholder Strategy
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Public Safety Management
Organizational & Operational Assessment
Command & Executive Advisory
Use of Force & Liability Reduction
Policy & Procedure Review
K9 & Specialty Operations
Leadership & Supervision
Organizational Risk & Performance
Personnel & Workforce Strategy
Public Safety Program Development
MATTHEW ROOK
Senior Consultant & Co-Founder
Matthew Rook brings 23 years of law enforcement experience, including 17 years in command positions and four years as a Chief of Police. His career has spanned frontline operations, specialty-unit leadership, supervision, policy development, personnel management, organizational oversight, and executive decision-making.
Matthew’s career has been defined by leadership. His command experience has given him a deep understanding of organizational structure, supervision, operational accountability, personnel management, policy, and the demands placed on public safety executives. As Co-Founder and COO of Hurricane Creek K9, a nationally recognized working K9 organization, he has continued to apply that experience while working with public safety agencies across all levels of government—from local and state law enforcement to federal and military partners.
That combination of command-level public safety experience and private-sector leadership gives Matthew a practical understanding of how agencies operate, how organizational risk develops, and how leadership decisions influence performance, liability, culture, and long-term organizational strength.
At Walsh | Rook, Matthew focuses on organizational and operational assessment, public safety management, use-of-force and liability reduction, K9 and specialty-unit oversight, policy and procedure review, executive advisory, and leadership strategy.
His approach is grounded in practical experience and a simple standard: recommendations must be defensible, implementable, and capable of working in the real world.
EXPERIENCE | CREDENTIALS
23 Years in Law Enforcement
17 Years in Command Positions
Former Chief of Police
Co-Founder & COO — Hurricane Creek K9
OUR MISSION
At Walsh | Rook, our mission is to help public safety leaders identify risk early, strengthen performance, and make defensible decisions that protect their people, their agencies, and the communities they serve.
Enterprise risk discipline.
Real-world command experience.
Practical solutions that work.
CORE VALUES:
ASSESS DIFFERENTLY
We evaluate the whole system—not just the incident that exposed the weakness.
SOLVE PRACTICALLY
Recommendations are built around what agencies can actually implement and sustain.
STRENGTHEN BEFORE FAILURE
The best time to identify organizational risk is before it becomes litigation, public controversy, or operational failure.