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Officer Jason Welin is a provincially appointed Peace Officer, in Alberta, Canada. He has 4 years of experience in a role that includes provincial offenses enforcement, traffic, and general patrol. Previous to his current position, for over 15 years he was employed in a number of high risk security assignments, including hospital/psychiatric/emergency room security, supervisor of protective services at a busy inner city homeless shelter, in retail and industrial loss prevention and private investigations.

Jason is an instructor in PPCT, Verbal Judo, Winning Mind Knife and Ground Defense, RADAR/LIDAR, Taser, OC Spray, and is a trainer in Martial Bladecraft/Counter Bladecraft, Personal Emergency Preparedness, and other law enforcement disciplines. He’s is a proud ILEETA member and is presenting a session on Emergency Preparedness for Law Enforcement Families at the 2014 ILEETA Conference.

Jason is also a volunteer/paid-on-call firefighter with at large county fire service and is a certified ice rescue technician, safety codes officer, watercraft operator/rescuer, and has achieved his NFPA 1001 Firefighter certification.

Police1 member Chief Jeff Chudwin of Olympia Fields (IL) PD has been dispatched as part of a team of Illinois-based first responders to the epicenter of Hurricane Katrina. Their mission is to aid in rescue, recovery and clean-up efforts. Jeff shares first-hand accounts of his team’s monumental challenges and poignant experiences in frequent reports from the field, all of which are found here.

James O. Born started his career in police work as a US Drug Agent (DEA) and was part of the late 1990s Miami drug war. He then moved on to become a Special Agent with the elite Florida Department of Law Enforcement, working undercover and spending eleven years on the agency’s Special Operation’s Team. He’s also a nationally known author of nine novels. The — Border War — was co-authored with TV commentator Lou Dobbs. Born’s most recent novel, Scent of Murder, about a police K-9 unit, was released in April, 2015. Visit his website, his Amazon page, or his Facebook page.

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Joanne Eldridge has more than twenty years’ experience as a government attorney and advocate. She served on active duty with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps for over ten years and has extensive experience in criminal and Constitutional law in both federal and state court. She is a graduate of Boston College and the George Washington University Law School and holds a Master of Laws degree in military law. She has been admitted to practice before the Maryland Court of Appeals, the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. She is currently practicing law in northern Virginia.

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Joseph “Little Joe” Ferrera started his public service career with the Federal Reserve Bank Police Dept. in 1977. He worked as a Deputy Sheriff for Oakland County For 6 years, and has spent the last 25 + years as a police officer in a city that borders Detroit. He has worked various assignments over the years. He has been training law enforcement and corrections officers since 1987. He specializes in use of force and subject control from verbal skills to lethal force. He has attended several thousand hours of instructor training. He began studying martial arts in 1970.

Jon Felperin, M.A., is a professional educator, Police Trainer, and a former Instructor at the San Francisco Police Academy. For five years he was and instructor at UC Berkeley, in conjunction with the Haas Business School.

Most recently, Jon has become concerned with the difficulties that agencies across the country are having with recruitment, selection, and retention of new Officers. Early retirement, rising educational standards, and declining literacy levels are shrinking the qualified candidate pool. Only about 3 percent of all applicants successfully complete the testing, academy, and field training stages. In fact, as many as 75 candidates are needed to fill every one position!

To help combat the problem, Jon is an active member of the National Partnership for Careers in Public Safety and Security which fosters the development of high school career academies specializing in Public Safety, Law Enforcement, and Security careers. (There are more than 900 academies of this type in the United States.)

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Jonathan Page is a professor, cognitive neuroscientist and co-founder of the World is Round, LLC. His extensive research on physiological responses to stress and how stress influences behavior led him to pursue new and more effective ways to deal with stress and stressful situations. Jon co-authored a training curriculum that is currently being used in law enforcement academies in the U.S. He also authored the book NeuroCop and has published his research in several professional journals.

Police K-9 Magazine is the only national publication dedicated to police officers who work with service dogs. The magazine provides timely features, columns, and departments written by experienced K-9 trainers, lawyers, veterinarians and law-enforcement officers.

Kathleen Vonk has been a police officer since 1988. She earned a BS in Exercise Science from Michigan State University. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and a Certified Physical Fitness Specialist and Health Promotion Director by the Cooper Institute. She has designed and implemented a corporate wellness program for her agency (Ann Arbor PD, Mi) and for the police academy at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor. She is a subject matter expert and instructor-trainer for the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) and teaches a Public Safety Wellness Instructor Program (PWI) through LouKa Tactical Training which can be tailored to any state or agency. See the course description as well as the upcoming Building Warrior Women Conference. Kathy can be reached at kathyvonk@aol.com

Keith Bettinger is a retired Suffolk County (N.Y.) Police Officer. He’s been writing for law enforcement publications for more than 25 years and has received 18 awards for his articles, stories, poems, and books. He has a Master’s Degree in Human Relations with a major in Clinical Counseling. During his career he received the department’s Bravery Medal, Silver Shield Award, Meritorious Police Service Award, Special Service Award, Professionalization Award, Department Recognition Award, five Headquarters commendations and six Precinct commendations. He also was a field training officer and an instructor on Post Shooting Trauma and Critical Incidents.

Keith has written two books, Fighting Crime With “Some” Day and Lenny, and End of Watch. He has also contributed stories to the following anthologies: Cop Tales 2000, Charity, True Blue, To Protect and Serve, and Dad’s Bow Tie. He also shares with Jack Miller, the screenplay Master Cheat. Keith lives in Las Vegas with his wife Lynn.

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