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Kevin Perry founded Virginia Law Enforcement Services in 1996 to promote quality training for Virginia law enforcement officers in search and seizure, 5th and 6th Amendment law, interviews and interrogations, and search warrant affidavit writing. Kevin is the author of The Role of Law Enforcement in Search and Seizure Actions. Kevin has also authored guidebooks in Fifth and Sixth Amendment Law and Preparing Search Warrant Affidavits. Kevin was previously editor and publisher of The Virginia Law Enforcement Journal. Kevin holds a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University. He instructs college level classes in criminal law and criminal justice. Kevin is a 25-year veteran with the Virginia Beach Police Department and holds the rank of Lieutenant. He currently serves in the Detective Bureau as a mid-level manager of the Homicide, Robbery, Special victims, and Forensics Services units.
Gary Plaag has over 26 years of professional experience as a speaker, trainer and consultant helping individuals and organizations to develop and maintain effective presentation and public speaking skills; group and interpersonal communication skills; and leadership, coaching and mentoring skills. He has over five years of experience working with law enforcement personnel. Gary earned his Master's Degree in Communication at George Mason University, where he also teaches basic public speaking at the Fairfax campus.
Rex Plant is the former mobile crime laboratory training coordinator for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC. Rex is a sworn senior officer/evidence technician with an extensive background in evidence recovery and crime scene examinations. His hands on knowledge of death and murder scenes affords him the ability to present one of the finest crime scene reconstruction and evidence recovery classes in the field. Rex has conducted training seminars for the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms, Secret Service, U.S. Attorneys Office, and Washington, DC. He has been qualified often as an expert witness in the field of crime scene reconstruction, examination and physical evidence recovery. He is a faculty member of the Prince George’s Community College Forensic Science Division and a member of the International Association of Identification. He holds certification in Forensic training as well as instructor development and course design.
Walter Purdy received a B.A. degree and did graduate work at George Mason University. He later obtained a law degree from Thomas Cooley School of Law in Lansing, Michigan. He has developed and directed the training of law enforcement officers in areas such as Law Enforcement Response to Terrorism, Responding to WMD Incidents, Critical Incidents-Command and Control, Counter-terrorism Techniques, Advanced SWAT Techniques, and Lessons Learned from Terrorism over Twenty Five Years. Mr. Purdy served in the United States Marines and has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Asia.
Roger Reynolds holds a Master of Arts from Western Michigan University and a B.S. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Currently he is the Director of Contract Relations for the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas. Among his many professional accomplishments, he has contracted and delivered fitness training certification programs for federal law enforcement agencies, all branches of the armed forces, over 500 law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S, numerous educational systems, corporations, and elite warfare units.
Amy Rofail is founder and president of Instelo, LLC, a corporate communication firm dedicated to business communications and professional training and development. Currently serving as an adult education trainer for Fairfax County Public Schools, she trains employees in both private and governmental sectors in communication issues. Amy has been teaching college-level English to adults since 2002 and has been editing and writing since 1999. Her editing work includes college-level text books, non-fiction publications in engineering, religion, medicine, and school and graduate school catalogs. She writes for a variety of corporate and political websites and assists with brochures, marketing literature, speeches, contracts, and other relevant documentation. Amy holds a graduate certificate in Professional Editing from The George Washington University. Other studies include graduate work in secondary education from Concordia University, BA in International Political Science, and a minor in Biblical Literature. Amy is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Russell Ruffin is an Emmy Award winning television news veteran who has worked for NBC News and its affiliates for more than 30 years. His reports have appeared on CNN, Fox News, A&E, LETN and 22 other networks around the world. During the Columbine High School massacre he produced coverage for "America's Most Wanted." Ruffin also produced the television documentary, “Columbine: Surviving the Trauma,” which police departments and victim assistance programs use to help officers and individuals cope with violence. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Ruffin produced a series of Homeland Security training programs for law enforcement officers.
Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin is the only profiler to work a child-perpetrated serial murder case. She created the profiles of female serial killers, new in-depth profiles of sadists, new terrorist profiles, and did the first ever research on illegal immigrant sex offenders. Dr. Schurman-Kauflin has worked hundreds of serial murder, sexual homicide, serial rape, stalking, abduction, and fugitive cases at the request of police around the U.S. Over 1,000 FBI agents, state police, homicide/sex crimes detectives, and sworn law enforcement officers have attended her training.
Peter A. Smerick has a B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Education degree. His career in the FBI took him from a special agent in the field, coordinating crime scene/surveillance photographic operations during organized crime, foreign counterintelligence, and major criminal investigations, to becoming a Criminal Profiler/Violent Crime Analyst. He focused on homicide, rape, child molestation, kidnapping, extortion, and product tampering and specialized in the assessment of anonymous/threatening communications. Mr. Smerick testified before Congress regarding his profile of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians/FBI standoff in Waco, Texas. In 1994 he joined The Academy Group, Inc., the largest association of former FBI Criminal Profilers/Violent Crime Analysts in the world. Currently, he is President and CEO. His specialty is providing expert testimony in Premises Liability/Negligent Security cases. He offers training in Violent Crime Analysis, Forensic Science, and Threat Assessment Techniques to law enforcement agencies, corporations, academia, the legal community, insurance carriers and private organizations world-wide. Operationally, he conducts threat assessments, develops diffusion strategies in workplace violence situations, examines questioned documents/photographic evidence, and analyzes cases of violent crime.
Chaplain Michael Shochet has been with the Fairfax County Police Department since 1999, serving as a volunteer chaplain at the McLean station and Chaplain Coordinator of the FCPD Chaplain Unit. Chaplain Shochet is a former police officer with the Baltimore City Police Department and was himself involved in numerous critical incident situations including an event involving the shooting of a police officer. Chaplain Shochet graduated the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion seminary in 1994, where he studied pastoral care among his divinity training. He is also trained in Critical Incident Stress Management and Pastoral Crisis Intervention from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, as well as a resiliency model of stress management. He was involved in a study of spirituality in law enforcement through the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI in Quantico. He also serves as a chaplain with the FBI, Washington Field Office. His primary profession is as an ordained Cantor with Temple Rodef Shalom synagogue in Falls Church, Virginia, where he has served since 1998.
Tracy C. Sparshott is a retired Detective from the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department. During his 24 years, he worked in decentralized SWAT, Special Assignment Team, Narcotics and K-9. He has been deputized as a U.S. Marshal and been assigned to the FBI, DEA, Customs and the IRS. He is recognized as an expert in the field of Undercover Narcotic Investigations and Drug Interdiction. Tracy has provided training to law enforcement academies throughout the United States, branches of the U.S. military, NEOA, International Chief’s of Police, and national police forces from several countries abroad for the U.S. State Department. Tracy has also spoken at narcotics conferences and major universities in the United States.