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Pat McCarthy served as a member of the Chicago Police Department for 26 years, 11 of which were spent on three separate FBI task forces while still employed by the Chicago Police Department. Prior to that, he was an undercover cop in the CPD Gang Crimes Unit and a SWAT team member in special operations for six years; three of those years were spent as a sniper/sharpshooter. Shortly before he retired from the police force, he created a three-day police training seminar called Street Crimes.

Bruce Bjorge’s fire service career includes more than 38 years of experience in command and training positions with career, combination, volunteer and military fire agencies. Bjorge currently serves as a battalion chief with the Western Taney County Fire District in Branson, Missouri, and as the director for fire policy sales at Lexipol. He has served as a company officer and assistant chief of training, and was previously the Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) specialist for the University of Missouri Fire & Rescue Training Institute, where he managed the Mobile ARFF and other live-fire training programs. Bjorge holds Training Officer certification from the International Society of Fire Service Instructors and is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Training Program Management course. He has been an active instructor and evaluator for the past 28 years and is a regular presenter at state, regional and national conferences and training events.

Greg Meyer, a retired Captain from the Los Angeles Police Academy, served for 30 years, including eight years as a commanding officer. Greg is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Force Science Research Center, a member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

In his 31st year of law enforcement and after approximately 20 years of street patrol, Sergeant Charles E. Humes, Jr. now serves as a supervisor in Support Services of a large Midwestern police department. Humes is recognized internationally as one of the pioneers of modern, realistic police defensive tactics training. He has taught seminars and instructor certification schools as far West as Alaska and as far East as North Carolina; and has trained police instructors from as far as Hong Kong.

For over three decades, Sergeant Humes has authored highly acclaimed police training articles, which have been published in a wide variety of law enforcement publications. Humes’ articles and his hands-on training have been continually recognized for their substance; as Humes’ work has been cited or acknowledged in eleven training manuals and/or survival oriented books authored by other trainers.

Humes has been repeatedly chosen by selection committees to train instructors at conferences conducted by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), as well as two for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI).

Sergeant Humes is the author, director, editor, and producer of a top selling police video training tape entitled DYNAMIC STRIKING TECHNIQUES. It is in use by police departments, training academies, and individual officers worldwide including members of the Anti-Terrorist Unit at London’s Heathrow Airport. With an unwavering personal commitment to excellence and professionalism, Humes’ passion is to give students the best, in no-nonsense, street-proven effective, tactics, techniques and concepts.

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Charles Remsberg has joined the Police1 team as a Senior Contributor. He co-founded the original Street Survival Seminar and the Street Survival Newsline, authored three of the best-selling law enforcement training textbooks, and helped produce numerous award-winning training videos.

Mark A. Marshall has been in state and local law enforcement for 21 years. At present he is the Chief of Police in Smithfield, Virginia and has held that position for over 15 years. He is currently the Chairman for the LInX regional information-sharing project. This initiative includes the sharing of data between local, state and federal agencies and in 2005 won International Association of Chief’s of Police (IACP) award for Excellence in Technology. He was elected as a Vice-President (2006) for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and is currently 4th VP on the Board of Officers. As part of his duties for IACP, he has oversight of all of the technology committees. They include the Communications and Technology committee, CJIS committee, and the Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) section. He is the appointed representative for IACP on the Advisory Policy Board (APB) for the FBI’s CJIS division. Additionally, he serves on the APB’s Information Sharing Subcommittee. He is a past Board member of the Law Enforcement Information Standards Council (LEITSC). LEITSC has developed data standards for record management systems/computer aided dispatch systems that are nationally accepted.

He sits on a variety of committees and commissions with an emphasis on technology, governance, and policy impact. Chief Marshall is the past president of the Hampton Road’s Chief’s Association and is currently on the executive board with the Virginia Association of Chief’s of Police.

His education includes a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Old Dominion University and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from Saint Leo University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Police Executive Leadership program through the University of Richmond and the Virginia Police Chiefs Foundation. He has authored numerous published articles and regularly conducts seminars and presentations at national and international venues.

Chris Ghannam is president and founder of Sark Securities Inc. and chief instructor for Sark Security Group R&D. Chris is a former US Military Intelligence / Counter Terrorism professional with extensive assignments abroad. Sark Securities Inc. a highly advanced private training firm for the US Military, Law Enforcement and Federal communities. For further information about Chris Ghannam and Sark Securities please visit.

Don Alwes is a trainer and consultant with 24 years of law enforcement experience. He is a lead instructor for the National Tactical Officers Association in the areas of school and workplace violence and active shooter response. For 15 years, Don has served as an adjunct instructor for Kentucky’s Department of Criminal Justice Training. He has instructed law enforcement personnel in active shooter response/rapid deployment, terrorism, homeland security, school and workplace violence, firearms, tactics, vulnerability assessment, and executive development. As a team leader, Don supervised and performed anti-terrorism assessments. He has served as a subject matter expert for projects sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and other agencies.

Donna Milgram is Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science, a national organization dedicated to assisting law enforcement agencies in recruiting, integrating and retaining women police officers. The woman behind IWITTS’s successful work with police departments, the Law Enforcement Environmental Assessment Tools, and Police Chief’s Recruiting Women to Policing article, Ms. Milgram has been an instructor at the FBI Academy on women and law enforcement, has presented at four International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conferences, the Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute, the State Police Hiring Summit, and the National Association for Women Law Enforcement Executives. As the director of the New Workplace for Women Project, Ms. Milgram assisted the Albuquerque and Tucson Police Departments in increasing the number of female recruits from 10% to one-third of the Academy and has assisted other Police Departments in achieving similar results in recruitment and retention of women and a “zero tolerance” climate for harassment.

Since leaving a withering aerospace engineering career in 1994, Doug Page has been writing about technology, medicine, and marriage peril from the Panic Room in Pine Mountain, Calif. He won a 2006 Tabby Award for a story titled “Life in a Disaster Morgue” that appeared in the January 2006 issue of Forensic Magazine. Page is also a former contributing editor for Homeland Protection Professional and Science Spectra magazines. Contact Doug Page.