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Deputy James “Zack” Holley is a patrolman for a southeastern sheriff’s office in Texas. Along with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University, Deputy Holley holds a Master Peace Officer’s license, is a certified Drug Recognition Expert, an SFST instructor, a vehicle crash expert/reconstructionist, field training officer and firearms instructor, and has received several awards throughout his career. Deputy Holley has several hundred DWI arrests and thousands of enforcement hours under his belt.

Major Charles “Chip” Huth has 30-years of law enforcement experience, having retired from the Kansas City Missouri Police Department as an executive commander in December 2021. Chip formerly led an internationally recognized SWAT team and has planned, coordinated, and executed over 2500 high-risk tactical operations. He is a licensed national defensive tactics trainer, a court-certified expert witness in the field of police operations and reasonable force, and the state of Missouri’s defensive tactics subject matter expert. He has a bachelor’s degree in Multi-Disciplinary Studies from Grantham University and an associate degree in Police Science from Park University.

Chip serves as a senior consultant for The Arbinger Institute. With offices in 24 countries, Arbinger is a recognized world leader in improving organizational culture, conflict transformation, and changing mindset. Chip serves as an adjunct professor for the University of Missouri—Kansas City, and an instructor at the Kansas City Missouri Police Leadership Academy. He works as a consultant for the Missouri Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, and was recognized as the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association’s trainer of the year in 2020. Chip is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Tactical Officers Association.

Chip is the President and CEO of CDH Consulting L.L.C., serving international law enforcement, military and corporate clients. He is a past president of the National Law Enforcement Training Center, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to delivering effective training to the international law enforcement, corrections, security, and military communities.

Chip has 35-years of experience in the martial arts, with a background in competitive judo and kickboxing. He is an accomplished author and co-wrote “Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect-Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training,” a textbook used in promotional processes and graduate programs. He can be heard weekly on the top-rated podcast, “Changing Discourse,” which he co-hosts on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and several other platforms. Chip is a veteran of the United States Army, and he resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife, Shelly. Chip can be reached at Chuth@arbinger.com.

Sarah Shendy, M.S., is currently a police sergeant with the Case Western Reserve University Department of Public Safety. She was the inaugural director of the Office of Law Enforcement Recruitment. With over 15 years in law enforcement, Shendy is committed to training and recruitment. Because of her cultural and religious knowledge and background in Muslim and Middle Eastern populations, she previously served as a Terrorism Liaison Officer. In 2012, she designed and facilitated training for law enforcement officers and other public service employees on more effective ways to interact with Middle Eastern populations. She also served as a subject matter expert for the Community Diversity and Procedural Justice Committee with the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy. Shendy is the first known Muslim Arab-American woman to be a police sergeant in the State of Ohio.

Leila Merrill served as an assistant editor for FireRescue1 and EMS1. Merrill has worked as a writer, editor, copy editor, digital producer, journalist and communications professional for the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle and other companies. She double-majored in English and communications at Trinity University.

Troy R. Tobler currently serves as a watch commander with a Metro Atlanta law enforcement agency. In his 23-year career, Lt. Tobler has served in a variety of positions that include uniform patrol as an officer, supervisor and watch commander; field training officer; detective; District Attorney investigator; Internal Affairs supervisor; background investigations and recruiting supervisor; and police academy adjunct instructor.

Lt. Tobler is a Georgia POST-certified Senior Training Instructor who specializes in report writing, administrative investigations, supervisor liability, criminal justice ethics, law enforcement recruiting and hiring, and criminal investigations. Lt. Tobler has guest-lectured at colleges in Georgia and New York on topics ranging from the Fourth Amendment and investigations to street-level bureaucracy and police hiring.

Lt. Tobler earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Auburn University and his Master of Interdisciplinary Studies in Criminal Justice Administration from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Additionally, Lt. Tobler has earned professional certifications in Management, Supervision and Advanced Law Enforcement. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, husband, and proud father of two sons.

Lieutenant W. Michael Phibbs has more than 28 years of experience in law enforcement. He is a member of the Central Virginia Type 3 All-Hazard Incident Management Team and is qualified as an Operations Section Chief and an Air Operations Branch Director. He has worked in those roles in national, regional, state and local events and disasters.

Mike Downing is the U.S. law enforcement advisor at Fivecast, a world-leading provider of digital intelligence solutions used by the national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security and financial intelligence sectors. Mike’s extensive 35 years of experience includes serving as the deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and commanding officer of the department’s Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau where he led five operational divisions. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and the FBI’s Leadership in Counter-Terrorism (LinCT) course. Contact him at mike.downing@fivecast.com.

Sergeant Jamie Borden (ret.) founded Critical Incident Review (CIR) in February 2020 when he began instructing the Enhanced Force Investigations & Cognitive Interview Course. Jamie determined there to be a missing link to the effective investigation and reporting aspect of complex force scenarios. The missing link is the application of the science relevant to three major categories: 1) human factors, 2) forensic video evidence review and analysis and 3) effective interviewing and reporting based on an understanding of global investigative processes.

He has lectured as a senior and lead instructor with Force Science (FS), as well as a top-tier force analyst recognized nationally. He was the first nationally certified advanced specialist regarding the analysis of human factors related to officer-involved critical incidents. Jamie taught and lectured for FS for over eight years.

Prior to retiring from a large department in Nevada, he created the Use-of-Force Training and Analysis Unit for his agency from 2012-2018. Since 2012, he has been conducting training and lecturing in the area of police performance and conducting force reviews and analyses. He has reviewed, analyzed and investigated hundreds of cases for his own department and on a national level as a court-certified expert in the field. His field of expertise is in police performance factors (human factors related to law enforcement), use-of-force decision-making, forensic video review and examination and police policy and practice.

Jason Daughrity recently retired after having served the State of California for over 31 years in both municipal and state-level policing. Jason’s final assignment was serving as the captain (commander) of the California Highway Patrol’s Field Support Section, which coordinates California’s statewide organized retail crime task force program, amongst other statewide investigative initiatives and programs. Jason now runs Professional Law Enforcement Consulting Services (PLECS), LLC, with a focus on organized retail crime and other contemporary criminal investigative initiatives.

John Erich is a Branded Content Project Lead for Lexipol. He is a career writer and editor with more than two decades of experience covering public safety and emergency response.