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Dr. Susan H. Adams is a communication consultant and instructor with 28 years of teaching experience. Her primary areas of instruction are statement analysis, interviewing, detection of deception, and interpersonal communication. Dr. Adams retired from the FBI as a Special Agent. For the past ten years, she taught statement analysis and interviewing techniques to federal agents, law enforcement officers, and international students at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. She also served as Acting Unit Chief of the Law Enforcement Communication Unit at the FBI Academy. She previously served in New York City, Philadelphia, and Louisville, Kentucky, investigating criminal and counterintelligence cases. As an adjunct instructor for the University of Virginia, Dr. Adams taught graduate courses titled “Interviewing Strategies through Statement Analysis.” She received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Patrick Anderson is a retired senior U.S. Army Non-Commissioned Officer with 21 years of military experience. He is a Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, a graduate of the U.S. Navy Advanced Access and Disablement course, and a graduate of the FBI Hazardous Devices School. Pat is also an Army Master Instructor in military and civilian curriculum development. He has managed Army instructors in the Systems Approach to Training and Small Group Instruction courses. Pat has a degree in Education from Columbia College and in Technologies and Management from Calhoun College. He is pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice at Columbia College. Pat is the lead instructor, curriculum developer, and training manager for EOD Technology, Inc.
Jean Anspaugh is a writer and teacher with an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina. Her book, Fat Like Us, which was based on her thesis, launched her into a career in public speaking and writing. She has been a guest on 60 Minutes, BBC, NPR, and other venues. Currently teaching for Fairfax County Public Schools Adult and Community Education, Jean has taught English and writing classes at universities, high schools, and for private corporations.
Jonnie Aycock was a Texas Ranger for 20 years until he retired in 2001. He has degrees from Navarro College and Baylor University. Mr. Aycock has been certified by state, federal, and military courts in the field of homicides, multiple victim crime scenes, and blood spatter interpretation. Mr. Aycock also has consulted for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wyoming Department of Justice, United States Attorney Office, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division. He was the area investigator during the Luby's Restaurant Mass Murders in Killeen, Texas in 1991, and was an investigator assigned to the Branch Davidian case in Waco, Texas, in1993. Mr. Aycock is a two-time Medal of Valor recipient from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Gary (recently retired) was a Law Enforcement Professional who served over 37 years in police related positions. He served five and a half years with the FBI, performing administrative duties. He also served twenty four years with the Carmel Police Department before retiring in November 1991 to accept a staff appointment with the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. Eight years of his service with the Carmel Police Department was as Chief of Police and nine years as the Department’s Senior Crisis Negotiator. During his seven plus years with the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, he attained the rank of Major and instructed thousands of police officers in Critical Incidents, Report Writing, Emergency Vehicle Operations, Criminal Investigations, and was the Officer In Charge for the Police Chiefs Executive Training Program.
Major Robert R. Beach (Retired)
Major Beach is a partner and the Director of Operations for the Washington-based crisis management group Hammer/Gregorian. Major Beach is an internationally recognized instructor and consultant in the field of crisis incident management and hostage negotiations. He began his career in law enforcement thirty-two years ago with the Lynchburg Virginia Police Department. He served two years in the Herndon town Police Department before joining the Fairfax County Police Department in 1977. He was a member and later the commander of the department’s Hostage Negotiation Unit. In addition to his responding to over 180 hostage/barricade situations, Major Beach set up a full-time training program for all of the members of the unit, as well as wrote and implemented the operations policies for the unit. He also has served as Commander and Director of the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy.
John Bobich is a recently retired Army First Sergeant with 21 years of service as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician; Master EOD Technician; supervisor/instructor at the Army EOD Refresher Course, the EOD Basic and Advanced Noncommissioned Officers Courses, and the FBI Hazardous Devices School. He was a Mobile Training Team instructor to foreign nationals from Cambodia, Japan, Nepal, and Thailand. Most recently, he was deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom-II/III serving in Balad, Fallujah, and Mosul.
Robert Browne is an instructor with the John E Reid and Associates after having spent 33 years with the Chicago Police Department where he served in the patrol and detective divisions. His varied assignments included investigating career criminals, organized crime, and motorcycle gangs. Browne has taught law enforcement officers both in the Chicago Police Department Academy and for the ATF, with a special focus on biker gangs. Browne retired in 2001 as a detective with the Violent Crimes Unit.
Dave earned a B. A. in sociology from the University of Illinois and an M.S. from Reid College. Employed by John E. Reid and Associates since 1981, he has conducted over 8,000 interviews and interrogations. Dave has been a seminar instructor since 1982. In 1990, Dave developed and introduced a new seminar program, “The Reid Technique® of Investigative Interviewing Techniques for Child Abuse Investigations,” and is the director of the program. Dave’s knowledge and experience in the art of interviewing and interrogation has enabled him to publish various articles on interviewing techniques and develop several specialized training workshops for both government and private organizations. Dave is a senior instructor and has taught extensively throughout the United States as well as in Japan, Canada, and England. Dave’s sense of humor and ability to translate difficult interviewing concepts into easily understood procedures has made him one of our leading instructors.
Cindy Daniel is the Assistant Director of Services and Programs for the Arc of Northern Virginia. As a counselor working with individuals with behavior and anger management, Cindy has facilitated social skills and recreation groups for children and adolescents with disabilities, taught individuals with disabilities independent living skills and connected individuals and families to local community services in the metropolitan area. She has extensive experience in training adults and children in disability awareness and techniques to support individuals with disabilities in everyday life. Cindy developed a training program to assist police officers in recognizing stereotypes and misperceptions about people with disabilities and, in turn, to assist people with disabilities and human service practitioners in understanding the role of the police.
Chief Ed Delmore has been a police officer since 1982. He has served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics investigator, and watch commander. For six years he was the working commander of the most successful city criminal interdiction unit in the State of Illinois. Chief Delmore has instructed thousands of officers throughout the United States in Criminal Patrol Techniques. He has held adjunct faculty positions with the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, The University of Illinois Police Training Institute, and the Institute of Police Technology and Management. He has been a guest instructor at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Chief Delmore earned a B.A. from Western Illinois University and an M.A. from Western Illinois University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Administrative Officers course at the University of Louisville’s Southern Police Institute and of the FBI National Academy.
Special Agent Supervisor Ed de Velasco began his law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1980 and is currently in charge of the Sarasota Field Office for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as well as Commander of the Gulf Coast Investigative Strike Force. SAS de Velasco supervises Major Drug investigations, Major Fraud investigations, Public Integrity, and Violent Crime investigations. Agent de Velasco has been involved in numerous RICO cases as well as numerous CCE, Money Laundering and Conspiracy Investigations. He was case agent on the first successful gang RICO case in the State of Florida in 1991 and on the largest gang RICO investigation and prosecution ever done at that time in the Southeastern United States in 1997.
Damon Fay is a 24 year veteran investigator and supervisor for the Albuquerque Police Department in New Mexico. He was a primary case agent for homicides, police officer involved shootings, and major violent crime cases. As a supervisor he led an officer involved shooting team and assisted in major crime joint jurisdictional investigations and task force initiatives. Damon is a recognized expert in homicide investigations, police use of force, and pattern injury identification. He has developed nationally accepted procedures for cold case homicide investigation and has become one of the leading circumstantial case specialists in the country. He is an instructor in firearms, defensive tactics and ground fighting, use of force, homicide and cold case investigation, major case management, interview and interrogations, and contact weapons defense. He lectures and teaches through out the U.S. and is the co-author of Contact Weapons: Lethality and Defense published by Gun Site Press.
Dr. Flanagan has a Ph.D. in Psychology, an M.S. in Business and Management, and an M.A. in Counseling. He has more than 25 years experience in the field of leadership, education and development, having served in both the public and private sector in Europe and the United States. He facilitated significant innovative organizational change processes involving organizations from over 20 nations. Dr. Flanagan has fifteen years of experience in human resource and organizational development. He consulted and taught in such areas as total quality management, total quality leadership, applied strategic planning, high performance teams, organizational reengineering, problem solving, decision-making, career development strategies, managing crisis, crisis intervention and the challenge of change. He has facilitated more than 130 executive retreats focusing on organizational strategy and wellness and has been a keynote speaker at several conferences in the areas of leadership, team building, problem solving and psychometrics. Also, he co-authored a book on organizational stress reduction.
Terry Fleck, EdD, is a deputy for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office in South Lake Tahoe, California. Terry has been a police dog handler and trainer for 22 years. Currently, he is working his third canine partner, a police service dog cross-trained for narcotics, evidence recovery, and tracking. He is an expert in the field of canine legalities and has authored several books updating the canine industry on current case law and legal trends. With a degree of Doctor of Education in Criminal Justice, Terry has taught Canine Legal Update and Opinions classes to more than 11,000 canine handlers, supervisors, administrators, attorneys and risk managers nationwide. His classes focus on canine legalities, the prevention of litigation and canine tactics. Terry also studies canine tactics and develops techniques to keep canine handlers safe, utilizing their dogs to maximum tactical advantage.