FBI names new head to Honolulu Division

Paul D. Delacourt is the newly assigned special agent in charge of the FBI’s Hono­lulu Division.

From 2009 to 2011, Delacourt served as the FBI liaison officer to a counternarcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith. In 2012 he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Hono­lulu Division.

Delacourt most recently served in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he led reviews of field offices, national programs, shooting incidents and special projects, the FBI said.

Delacourt began his career as an FBI special agent in 1995. He was first assigned to the Chicago Division, where he worked gang and drug investigations, and was a member of the SWAT team. Following 9/11, he transferred to the Counterterrorism Division, working on a temporary assignment to the Guan­ta­namo Bay Task Force and then on a deployment to Af­ghani­stan.

In 2003 Delacourt was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterterrorism Division, working in the Iraq unit and serving as program manager for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office to investigate war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Saddam Hussein and others of the former Iraqi regime. Delacourt deployed to Qatar and Iraq in 2004 and later served as supervisor of the FBI team assigned to a Department of Defense task force working counterterrorism investigations.

Delacourt replaces Vida Bottom, who retired.