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Areas of Professional Experience, Training, Research
and Forensic Expertise in Law Enforcement and Corrections:
I have been directly involved in law enforcement with corrections as a specialty since 1965. My professional experience includes working in two different Sheriff’s Departments, completion of basic police training in the San Francisco Police Academy, and providing technical assistance to other law enforcement agencies in other jurisdictions at the direction of my Sheriffs. I was assigned a variety of research and development projects in both departments that gave unusual access to, training for, and experience with, a variety of law enforcement administrative problem solving situations. I was selected for and participated in many different state professional standards bodies, including presentations to legislative authorities during my career.
After retiring from full-time law enforcement, I began teaching and consulting for easily 500 plus law enforcement, adult and juvenile detention facilities, probation and parole services and other corrections agencies around the United States. This exposure to a wide spectrum of organizational sizes, service populations, budget requirements, geographic and political differences, and leadership personalities provided an unique learning opportunity for me to share with other professionals. A number of my projects and studies put me inside organizations for years at a time. In my highest training provider work period, my firm was presenting in excess of 10,000 eight hour training days per year. The classes that I personally teach, place me in direct contact with law enforcement and corrections professionals in and out of the classroom. In many cases, the participants in my classes provide enormous quantities of information and participation in discussion of current issues, changes in law and operations, and a continuing reading of vital signs in law enforcement and corrections.
My court compliance work, trial consultation and expert witness experience augment my teaching credentials and allows me to experience legal theory and knowledge from many different types of legal professionals.
My law enforcement supervisory, mid-management and command experience, and later police and corrections union work exposed me to a broad spectrum of police operations, organizational administration and personnel management.
I continue to maintain my teaching knowledge and skills through continuing education, participation in professional gatherings and subject matter research. My teaching associates provide me with cutting edge information from their respective specialties and updates on what their class participants are facing in day-to-day public safety operations.
Recruitment, Hiring and Retention of Public Safety Personnel
Since 1997, I personally funded a study of public safety practices, procedures and outcomes of large, medium and small government agencies in gaining new, qualified employees while maintaining the quality of public safety employees on a career track. Results of the study and subsequent investigations are presented at conferences and NTE seminars.
Recruitment
o Marketing and public information strategies for special recruitment of women, minorities and language specialists.
o Protection against institutional and political bias
o Applicant interests and organizational attractions
o Cost effectiveness of local, regional and national recruiting efforts.
Hiring
o Validation of hiring processes
o Protection against bias in selection and screening procedures
o Importance of background and integrity verification.
o Timelines and drop-out rates/reasons – financial and organizational impact of vacancies and turnover
o Bonafide Occupational Qualifications (BOQ's) and “testing/qualification” validation
Retention
o Organizational health and a stable workforce
o Non-economic employee "satisfiers" that often made a difference in lower salaries
o Contract and employee agreements and management prerogatives.
o Learning from terminations and exit-interviews.
Correctional and Detention Facilities Operations
Standards of care, including deliberate indifference elements by adult and juvenile corrections officials.
o California state and national minimum standards for adult corrections facility operations.
o Minimum training standards for jail employees, supervisors, managers and administrators.
o Standards of operation for pre-arraignment booking and lockup facilities.
o Standards for design and operation of temporary and court holding facilities.
o Standards for detention of minors in adult detention and police facilities.
o Jail medical administrative standards in operations.
o Institutional mental health services contracts and levels of service.
o Totality of conditions and deprivation of services in adult and juvenile detention facilities related to overpopulation.
Standard practices in inmate classification, objective classification systems
o Adult and juvenile classification procedures, intake through alternatives to incarceration.
o Objective classification procedures, instrument design, methodology and validation.
o Classification criteria for suicide recognition and special handling.
o Classification system auditing, procedures validation methods.
o Organized and sophisticated criminal control in classification procedures and Security Housing Units (SHU’s).
o Classification officer training, certification and proficiency maintenance.
o Supervision and management of classification units.
Offender Suicide Potential Recognition, Intervention and Inmate Injury Prevention.
Suicide Opinions Research Project, 1999 To Date
o Recognition, intervention and management of suicidal inmates.
o Studies and research on demographic elements of suicide potential.
o Death in custody investigations
Adult and Juvenile Institutional Security, Precautions, And Procedures.
o Institutional security and safety functions, including security practices, search methods, contraband control policy and practices
o Strip searches and other types of clothed and unclothed personal searches
o Adult and juvenile institutional physical plant operations and management
o Jail emergency procedures, critical incident training, command, and control, after action incident debriefing.
o Jail violence control and response – alternatives to use-of-force, McMillan standards.
Correctional, Police, Public Safety Management and Administrative Practices
Corrections Institutional Management and Administration
o Detention facilities policies, procedures development, implementation and testing.
o Jail records, identification procedures, and administrative documentation practices.
o Jail overcrowding, population management and alternatives to incarceration
o Correctional institutional staffing, deployment, and span of supervision.
o Adult and juvenile institutional building operations and management
Correctional Employment Practices: Recruitment, Hiring, Assignment, Promotion, and Progressive Discipline Including Rehabilitation Programs.
o Recruit and apprenticeship training and standards (FTO, JTO, CTO, DTO).
o Supervision and management in correctional institutions and corrections field assignments.
o Jail and institutional incident, homicide, suicide, death in custody, and internal affairs investigations.
o Use-of-force training, equipment, policies and procedures.
o Failure to train, supervise, manage and control corrections employees.
o Jail, adult and juvenile detention leadership development
o Assignment, promotion, discipline and termination.
Law enforcement practices and procedures:
o Civil rights violations by police officials concerning prisoners
o Use-of-force by police officers (passive restraint to deadly force) within police and law enforcement facilities.
o Wrongful inmate - prisoner injury or death in police custody.
o Supervision, management and control of law enforcement and public safety employees.
o Police jail or lockup policy, procedures and practices review.
o Warrant service, rendition and extradition. & positive identification of arrestees
o Recruitment, hiring, discipline and termination of law enforcement and public safety personnel.
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