Thomas M. Fallon, Captain Amberley Village Police Department, is the Commander and a founding member of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Heroin Task Force. Commander Fallon has served as the Commander of this task force since its inception in June 2015. Under Commander Fallon’s command, the Task force has investigated over 1600 opioid-related overdose deaths. In September of 2019, this task force was named “Ohio Task Force of the Year” by Ohio NARCO.

In his role with the Task Force, Commander Fallon initiated the Quick Response Team (QRT) in Norwood, Ohio in 2016, and is currently leading a multi-jurisdictional, county-wide Quick Response Team (QRT) in Hamilton County. In early 2021 and again in 2023, Commander Fallon was the law enforcement lead and program coordinator for one of the largest QRT expansion projects in the nation.

Commander Fallon began his law enforcement career in 1989 at the Wilmington, Ohio Police Department. In July of 1990, he moved to the Norwood Police Department in Hamilton County, where he was Supervisor of the Criminal Investigation Section and Commander of the Norwood Drug Task Force. In 2015, after noticing a steep increase in heroin related overdoses and heroin related deaths in Norwood, Commander Fallon helped create the Hamilton County Heroin Task Force, with a mission to investigate overdoses and overdose deaths back to the supplier of the deadly drug. In November of 2017, Commander Fallon lcontinued his role as Commander of the Heroin Task Force and QRT program coordinator with the Amberley Village Police Department.