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Jeremy Stafford is a Police Officer with the LAPD — on the job for more than 12 years — and has worked as a Patrol Officer, Narcotics Officer, and a Field Training Officer. Stafford has also worked undercover in a specialized unit within the LAPD’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau for several years and is currently assigned as a Senior Firearms Instructor at the Police Academy. Two of the major projects that Stafford has recently spearheaded include our MACTAC (Multiple Attack Counter Terrorism Action Capability) course, which he helped write, and the 2010 Firearms Delivery Plan, which radically changes the way that LAPD’s firearms program is delivered from recruit training to instructor certification.

Stafford spent 13 1/2 years in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve, and was deployed all over the world in support of the Global War on Terror, including a combat tour in Iraq, where heearned a Bronze Star with a Combat “V” for valor. Stafford also completed several tours to Southeast Asia as a Counter-Terrorism liaison, and a tour in the horn of Africa as an advisor. Toward the end of his tour in Iraq, Stafford was assigned to help rebuild the Baghdad Police Department, where he helped develop the first joint USMC-Iraqi Police patrol program. Stafford and his team were featured in POLICE Magazine as well as on CNN, FOX News, and Good Morning America.

Stafford is Lead Instructor at Simi Valley Krav Maga, and is also a certified Krav Maga Force Training Division Instructor and a certified train the trainer. I recently certified several LAPD SWAT officers and Tactics instructors as Krav Maga Force Training Instructors, a first for the LAPD.

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Dick Fairburn has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience in both Illinois and Wyoming, working patrol, investigations and administrative assignments. Dick has also served as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst and as the Section Chief of a major academy’s Firearms Training Unit and Critical Incident training program. He has a B.S. in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and was the Valedictorian of his recruit class at the Illinois State Police Academy. He has published more than 100 feature articles and two books: Police Rifles and Building a Better Gunfighter.

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Born in Okeechobee and raised in Miami Florida, Acie Mitchell has built an impressive reputation and career as a martial arts, defensive tactics, and self-defense Master Instructor. Acie worked as a corrections officer for both the state of FL and the county of Dade where his 4th degree black-belt Aikido skills were often put to the test.

He was the only law enforcement defensive tactics instructor to teach at both Broward and Miami Dade School of Justice police academies simultaneously in the year 2005. He also became the primary defensive tactics instructor teaching police and corrections personnel defensive tactics in several areas: striking techniques, pressure points, takedowns, transporters, restraint devices, impact weapons, handgun disarms/retention, edged weapon defense, escapes from street attacks, vascular neck restraint, and ground survival tactics at Miami Dade College, School Of Justice.

In 2006, Acie became a crewmember self-defense instructor for Homeland Security trained by the US Federal Air Marshal Service. He also teaches firearms and law enforcement vehicle operations to law enforcement personnel. In 2007, Acie became a certified F.I.G.H.T. instructor of the Haganah system, founded by Israeli Special Forces Commander, Mike Lee Kanarek. By the end of 2008, Acie has added Israeli Tactical Knife Fighting and Ground Survival to his list of credentials of the Haganah system.

He is a master instructor, teaching thousands of law enforcement professionals self-defense averaging over 1,400 hours of teaching per year. He is a former SWAT officer of the Sweetwater Police Department and has several feature films and music videos to his credit.

I’m a girl from the Midwest who was raised in a law enforcement family. A proud member of the Sigma Kappa sorority, I attend the University of Arizona studying journalism and sports management. I am a foodie who loves sports, fitness, politics and blogging.

Allan Lengel, a veteran journalist who has covered law enforcement at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News, is the editor and founder of TickleTheWire.com. Over the years, Mr. Lengel has covered major events including the 9-11 attacks, the Congressman William Jefferson investigation, the Chandra Levy probe, the anthrax attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing. He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland.

Althea Olson, LCSW has been in private practice at Central Professional Group in Joliet, IL since 1996. She has a Master of Social Work from Aurora University. She provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, & geriatrics. She is also trained in Critical Incident Stress Management and is a certified divorce mediator. Once word got out that her husband was a police officer, law enforcement agencies began to refer to her. Mike Wasilewski has been a Naperville, IL police officer since 1996. He holds a Master of Social Work from Aurora University and serves on the department’s Crisis Intervention Team and Domestic Violence Team. Together, Mike and Althea provide unique training programs for police officers and therapists covering domestic violence and mental health issues from various perspectives.

Althea can be reached at her office 815/725-6511 or AltheaLCSW@comcast.net, and Mike can be reached via email at OfcMike@comcast.net.

Barney Doyle has been a police officer for nine years. He spent five years on patrol and the last four-plus years doing white-collar crime investigations. He has a bachelor of science degree in accounting and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Prior to law enforcement, Barney worked as a newspaper reporter. He still writes in his spare time and runs the site www.workingpolice.com.

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Bob Willis has trained federal, state and local agencies and officers for over 25 years in the areas of defensive tactics, firearms, emergency vehicle operations, vehicle contacts, professional communications, constitutional law, report writing and numerous other disciplines. For a decade he co-presented the Calibre Press “Street Survival® Seminar” across the USA and Canada. Bob has been a patrol officer, “SWAT” team member, field training officer, departmental training officer, recruit academy and in-service academy instructor, a “train-the-trainer,” an officer survival instructor and lecturer and a litigation consultant. He still works as a police officer (part-time) and is a sworn deputy sheriff. Bob is a full-time Instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is responsible for the realistic training of public safety personnel at one of the most technologically advanced facilities in America that specializes in realistic scenario based instruction, located on the NWTC campus. Bob also teaches academic courses in the Law Enforcement Degree and Recruit Academy programs. He often serves as a litigation consultant and “expert witness” and has testified in Federal and State Courts, Grand Jury Hearings, Coroner’s Inquests as well as Police Disciplinary Hearings to explain and critique the force and/or procedural actions of officers. Bob authored the original State of Wisconsin’s Defensive and Arrest Tactics Manual and has contributed articles to national publications.