Peter Forcelli

Peter J. Forcelli is an ATF Special Agent who currently serves as a Deputy Assistant Director with the agency, overseeing all it's training functions. He has worked in ATF's offices in New York, Phoenix, Canada, Miami and has done three tours in their Headquarters. While serving as the ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Division, he led the ATF investigations into the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, the mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Mr. Forcelli is also a retired NYPD police officer and homicide detective, who worked on a number of high profile cases during his 15 year tenure there.

As a leader, Mr. Forcelli is known for his commitment to investigative excellence and the relentless pursuit of justice. His investigative work has put countless criminals in prison for violent crimes, but has also led to the exoneration of 8 people, who were wrongly jailed for murders that they didn't commit. He is a survivor of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, as well as the subsequent lung cancer that he contracted as a result of working on the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero and at the Staten Island landfill.