Brett Parson, Acting Lieutenant, has been serving the Metropolitan Police Department since 1994 and served as the GLLU's commander from June 2001 until January 2007. He is currently assigned to the Executive Office of the Chief of Police, where he commands the department's Special Liaison Unit (SLU) and is an assistant to Chief Cathy Lanier. Parson and Lanier were partners at the beginnings of their careers. Under Parson's command are the department's four liaison units (Gay and Lesbian, Latino, Asian and Deaf and Hard of Hearing). He also supervises the department's Family Support Team (FST), which is responsible for responding to traumatic events involving the critical injury or death of MPDC's current and/or retired members.