PMW Instructors
Our organization values growth and perpetual learning, values which are reflected in our team of instructors who are focused on remaining current in their professional knowledge. You will also find them to be extraordinarily enthusiastic about their chosen profession, an attitude that we find highly contagious!
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF INSTRUCTORS
Following (in alphabetical order) are brief biographical sketches of PMW instructors. Our course descriptions include the names of the instructors assigned to each class. From time to time, it is necessary to make changes in specific course assignments due to scheduling conflicts.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZJAMES ARMSTRONG
Bio: James Armstrong is a Field Sergeant with the Santa Ana Police Department. Prior to making rank, James was a Detective Corporal in the Gang Homicide Division, where he spent 8 years. He has been with the Santa Ana Police Department for 17 years, and prior to that was with South Pasadena Police Department for one year.
James is a POST certified instructor for the State of California specializing in the areas of gangs and gang subculture. He also teaches entry-level recruits and police officers, advanced police officers, police management, district attorneys and their supervisors and other groups. He has testified as a gang expert in both Municipal and Superior Courts dozens of times. James has personally investigated over 1000 gang-related crimes, and handled in excess of 25 gang homicide investigations as the assigned case agent. In addition, he had assisted in the investigation of over 400 homicide investigations and has contacted over 2500 gang members.
James also holds a BA Degree in Criminal Justice from Alameda College.
KENNETH BELL
Bio: Kenneth Bell is a 36-year veteran of law enforcement experience. He worked 21 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department before transferring to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation. He has 22 years of experience working in all aspects of juvenile street gangs. He is one of the original detectives assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department street gang unit. After a long and distinguished career, Ken has recently retired from the District Attorney's Office where he was assigned to the "Hard Core Gang Unit."
Ken Bell is a nationally recognized street gang expert who continues to train and consult for law enforcement agencies, school personnel, community, and parent groups. He also lectures to many school and church youth groups regarding recognizing street gang mannerisms, antisocial behavioral patterns and he does motivational talks as well. Ken was a teacher for the LA Unified and Centinella Valley school districts for 13 years teaching a class called "student and the law." Ken is presently a faculty member of UC Davis, Golden West College,and St. Petersburg College and is also an 18-year member of the Board of Education in Duarte.
Mr. Bell has been the subject of award winning media documentaries and was twice selected as the outstanding instructor by the California District Attorney Association. In 1993, he received the "Jamison Award," which is an annual award for the outstanding LA County District Attorney Investigator. He was also awarded the "Career Achievement Award," by the Black Peace Officers association in 1994. In 1999, The California District Attorney's Association selected him as the top investigator of the year. Ken Bell has been happily married for the past 38 years and the proud father of 5 children and 5 fantastic grandchildren.
RICHARD D BURNS III, J.D.
Bio: Richard Burns has been a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office since 1977. Most recently he has been the Head of Employee Relations and Internal Affairs since 2003 and the head of the Pasadena Branch 2006-2007. Prior to that he was Head Deputy DA, Training Division (1995-2003); Deputy in Charge, West Covina Office (1992-1995); and Deputy In Charge, Bellflower Area Office (1991-1992).
Richard is a Teaching Fellow at Loyola Law School, a lecturer at the LADA’s Office, a Director at New Prosecutors College, Mid-Level (Felony Skills), College, Filing Deputy College, Calendar Deputy College, Target Crimes Series and Complex Litigation Conference for the LADA’s Office; Lecturer, Pennsylvania DA’s Assoc; and he lectures at various other DA offices throughout the US.
He is the Editor and Publisher for CASELOG (Appellate Cases of Significance to Prosecutors) for the LADA’s Office, as well as the Editor and Publisher for DALINE (CA Legal Information Notebook. Richard is also an accomplished author for DALINE and the National College of DAs Alumni Assoc. Mr. Burns was awarded the National District Attorney Association Distinguished Speaker Award for 2004 and is their national lecturer on employment law, management practices, advance trail advocacy, complex litigation, nobody and child homicides, cross examination of expert witnesses, crime scene and scientific evidence and train the trainer programs. He also stands as a member of the California DAs Assoc. and many other boards and clubs in California. Mr. Burns graduated with honors from Loyola Law School.
DEANNE CASTORENA
Bio: Ms. Castorena is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County currently assigned to the Hardcore Gang Division Injunction Unit. Prior to that she was the Assistant Deputy in Charge for the West Covina Office, Filing Deputy for the Pomona Office, a member of the GRASP Unit and assigned to the Criminal Courts Building for the Hardcore Gang Division. Deputy DA Castorena also has worked in the Hardcore Gang Division in Pomona, Bellflower, Pasadena and Norwalk as well as Eastlake Juvenile. During her almost 10 years in the Hardcore Gang Division, she tried approximately 30 cases, which were primarily murders. She also secured three civil gang injunctions and assisted with several others. Ms. Castorena is considered the DA's office civil gang injunction expert and secured the first civil gang injunction for the District Attorney's Office in 1994. She authored the California District Attorney's Association "Civil Gang Injunction Pleadings Manual" published in 2000.
Ms. Castorena is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (June 1990) and graduated from the University of Virginia in June 1986. She has lectured on gang prosecution, civil gang injunctions, Proposition 21, and community prosecution programs to a variety of audiences including at a minimum the National Institute of Justice, Community Prosecution Workshop (1995 - Washington DC), California Governor's Committee (1995 - Sacramento), The California District Attorney's Association (multiple presentations for gang prosecution training and the summer conference in 1997), California Gang Investigator's Association (1998, 2000), Regional Community Policing Institute sponsored by LASD (4 sessions in 1998),Salt Lake County (Utah) Sheriff's Office Seminar (1997), League of California Cities Spring Conference (1996), California Contract Cities Association (1998), Los Angeles Department of Housing and Urban Development (1997), The LA County Sheriff's Department (LASD) Interagency Gang Task Force (1995), LASD Gang Summit (1997), LASD Crime Prevention/Community Relations Division (1996), LASD High Impact Community Oriented Policing Project (1997), California Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation (2000), Cal State Fullerton, Department of Criminal Justice (1996 and 1997), Loyola Law School (1997), The Multi Agency Graffiti Intervention Committee (MAGIC) (1997), and many LA county cities, commissions and clubs.
JAIME COULTER
Bio: Mr. Coulter is presently the Assistant Head of Court for the Juvenile Branch of the Orange County District Attorney's office. Mr. Coulter has also served as the deputy in charge of the training division for the office, which is responsible for training all of the attorney's and investigators within the D.A.'s office as well as outside training to law enforcement agencies. He started his career as a prosecutor in the Riverside D.A.'s office before transferring to Orange County in 1989. He has handled thousands of criminal cases while serving in a number of different assignments in the office, including hate crime prosecutions and a 5 year assignment with the Family Protection Unit, prosecuting all types of cases of domestic violence, child abuse and elder abuse.
He holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Pepperdine Law School and a Bachelors of Business Administration from U.S.C. In addition to his work as a Deputy District Attorney, he has served as a Professor of Law at Pacific West College of Law, an instructor in the paralegal program at Fullerton Junior College, and a POST instructor in the areas of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Racial Profiling.
LAURIE CRUTCHFIELD
Bio: Ms. Crutchfield is currently employed as a Forensic Scientist III at the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Forensic Science Services Facility assigned to the Firearm/Toolmark and Crime Scene Investigation units. Ms Crutchfield?s background includes 19 years of forensic experience. After graduating from Michigan State University with two Bachelor of Science Degrees, one in Medical Technology and one in Criminalistics, she served a 10-week internship with the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Forensic Science Services Bureau. She was then hired as a Forensic Specialist doing crime scene investigation, photography and processing evidence for latent prints. In 1988 she was promoted to Forensic Scientist and has worked in the areas of Blood Alcohol and Serology/DNA. Ms. Crutchfield is an Assistant Instructor for the Field Evidence Technician Program at California State University Long Beach, she is a frequent guest speaker on Blood Spatter for the California State University Irvine Forensic Program, and is currently teaching Forensic Aspects of Investigation for the P.O.S.T. approved Homicide Investigator's Academy. In addition she is an instructor for the State Deputy Coroner Death Investigation School.
JOE DeLADURANTEY, Ph.D.
Bio: Joe DeLadurantey was appointed Chief of Police for the City of Irwindale on August 1, 2001 and served until his retirement in 2005. He had served as the interim Chief for one month. Prior to his appointment he was the Law Enforcement Liaison for the District Attorney of Los Angeles County for four years. With over 40 years in law enforcement, he has served as the Chief of Police for the City of Torrance for 5
1/2 years and spent 27 years with the Los Angeles Police Department where he attained the rank of Captain. He retired from law enforcement at the end of 2005 and is currently a management consultant to the public sector.
He is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the graduate school of Public Administration at Cal State Northridge, has published textbooks and articles for professional journals and lectures throughout the country on various topics. He is currently completing his dissertation and will be receiving a doctoral degree in Public Administration from the University of La Verne in 2007. His hobbies include running, reading, collecting 50's music and sports broadcasting.
DOUGLAS DICKERSON
Bio: Douglas Dickerson retired as a captain with the Brea Police Department after a thirty year career that began with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in 1976. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from California State University, Fullerton, and a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California in Public Administration. He is a graduate of the Delinquency Control Institute at the University of Southern California, a graduate of the Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) Supervisory Leadership Institute, and a graduate of the POST Command College. He has taught classes on leadership and ethics for California State University, Long Beach, the University of California, Riverside, and Golden West College.
Doug has presented lectures at academic conferences hosted by St. Johns University, DePaul University, California State University Long Beach, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences on ethics and leadership, and at the International Conference on Business Ethics in Prague, Czech Republic. He has also been an instructor for the POST Supervisory Leadership Institute, Ethics for Police Managers, the Tools for Tolerance police ethics program at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and other courses on ethics and leadership.
Doug currently instructs Administration of Justice classes at Fullerton College and consults in the private and public sector on leadership and ethics. Doug is a past president of the Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce, Yorba Linda Basketball, and serves on the Board of Directors for Yorba Hills Little League. He is also on the Board of Governors for Placentia Linda Community Hospital. Doug lives and resides in Yorba Linda.
He enjoys fishing, golf, and coaching his children’s youth sports.
JONATHON FAIRTLOUGH
Bio: Jonathan Fairtlough has been a Deputy District Attorney with Los Angeles County since 1994. He has been assigned to the High Tech Crime Division (HTCD) and its predecessor units, HTCU and HALT, since May of 2000. He was the lead prosecutor on People v Oluwatosin, the ChoicePoint data intrusion case, and was selected as prosecutor of the Year in 2006 by the Southern Chapter of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators. Mr. Fairtlough is on the advisory panel of the International Association of Chiefs of Police National Strategy to Combat Identity Theft, and is a member of the National District Attorneys Association Identity theft advisory group.
He has been a recurrent instructor at the National Advocacy Center on Identity Theft and Computer Crime, an instructor for POST, and has helped train on high tech issues for the California District Attorneys Association, Los Angeles Police Department, FBI and the Southern California High Tech Task Force. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School.
WILLIAM GARVIN
Bio: Mr. Garvin is the owner and principal trainer for the California Training Company, a small consulting firm based in Rio Vista, California. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, he held numerous government positions in both civilian and military capacities. His last government position (before he committed full-time to his consulting practice in 1976) was as the Director of Labor and Employee Relations for the Western Region of the Social Security Administration. Mr. Garvin's experiences as both a labor representative and as a management representative provide the foundation for the practical approaches presented in his personnel management workshops.
RON GEORGE
Bio: Mr. George is a Vice President of PMW Associates. He is a retired Police Chief and Interim City Manager from the City of South Gate, California, where he had 31 years of service. He holds a Masters degree in Public Communications and a Bachelors of Science degree in Public Management both from Pepperdine University. He is a graduate of the International City Managers’ Association Executive Managers Course and a graduate of the FBI National Academy Law Enforcement Executive Development Course. Ron teaches in the POST Managers Course and has participated in several organizational studies. He specializes in Strategic Planning and Team Building workshops throughout California and other Western States. He also facilitates Ethics and Values workshops.
ROBERT GRACE
Bio: Robert (Bobby) Grace has been a deputy DA with LA County since 1988. During his tenure, Bobby has been assigned to the Hard Core Gang and Family Violence divisions of the DA's office. He has prosecuted over 60 murder trials and several special circumstance murder cases. He is probably best known for having prosecuted Snoop Doggy Dogg for murder in 1996. In 2003 Bobby prosecuted three special circumstance murder cases including Henry Hayes, a Los Angeles minister accused of killing his wife and seven year old daughter. All three cases resulted in convictions and multiple life sentences for each defendant. In 2004 he convicted an 87-year old man for killing his 82-year old wife because she "nagged him too much." It is believed to be the oldest person convicted of murder in LA County history.
Bobby attended UCLA as an undergraduate and served as student body vice-president and president. He graduated from Loyola Law School and began his career in the DA's office immediately upon graduation. Mr. Grace recently completed service on the UCLA Alumni Association Board of Directors and is immediate past president of the UCLA Black Alumni Association. He serves on the board of directors of the non-profit girls mentorship program WYSE.
PALL GUDGEIRSSON
Bio: Pall Gudgeirsson is the Assistant City Manager and elected City Treasurer for the City of San Clemente, California where he has worked since 1992. He has a BA degree in Accounting from the University of Washington and an MBA in Finance from the University of Puget Sound. He is an instructor at California State University, Long Beach where he teaches budget and finance to police management personnel.
Pall served in the United States Air Force as a Police Officer; in Kitsap County, Washington as an Internal Auditor and Fiscal Officer; and Finance Director/Treasurer for the City of Redmond, Washington. He has served as a director for the Association of Public Treasurers and was responsible for developing that organization’s model Investment Policy and Certification Program. Pall also developed the City of San Clemente’s Long Term Financial Plan (LTFP) in 1992. The LTFP has been recognized on a national level including the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), Government Finance Review magazine and GFOA’s Recommended Budget Practices.
Pall has been has spoken to a number of state and national associations including the GFOA, Association of Public Treasurers of the United States & Canada, California League of Cities, California Debt & Investment Advisory Committee, California Municipal Treasurers Association, California Society of Municipal Finance Officers, Washington Municipal Treasurers Association, Washington Finance Officers Association, and the National Association of Counties. In 2001, he was a featured speaker at GFOA’s nationally televised satellite conference “Budgeting for High Performance Organizations: New Models and Best Practices” from the PBS studios in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of an article in the April 2004 issue of Government Finance Review Magazine “Be Prepared: Long Term Financial Planning in San Clemente, California”. He has also published the Quick Reference Guide to Municipal Budgeting, and is currently developing a Quick Reference Guide to Long Term Financial Planning.
KIMBERLEE GULUZIAN
Bio: Kimberlee Guluzian is a Lead Forensic Specialist with the Orange County Sheriff Coroner. She is certificated in Evidence Technology and Basic Applied Forensic Science. Her areas of applied expertise are major crime scenes: homicides, in-custody deaths, and officer involved shootings. She is a POST trainer in crime scene investigation and a consultant to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on fingerprint comparisons and searches. Ms. Guluzian is an active member of the International Association of Identification. She holds her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, California State University, and Fullerton.
RICHARD M. KREISLER, J.D.
Bio: Richard Kreisler has devoted much of his thirty-two year legal career to the representation of California law enforcement professionals. After having spent the first fourteen of those years representing police and fire associations exclusively, Richard joined the Firm in 1989, confining his practice to the employment relations representation of public agencies through his work with police chiefs, sheriffs, fire chiefs and other public sector managers. Having developed invaluable insights into police and fire administration and the inner workings of the public safety/labor management relationship as a result of the first phase of his career, Richard brings an unprecedented insider’s perspective to the representation of management, which maximizes the ability of his police and fire administration clients to anticipate and counter issues developed by associations and their members.
Richard provides ongoing counsel to a significant number of police and fire chiefs, to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and to other police and fire administrators state-wide. He has particular expertise in conducting internal affairs investigations, prosecuting administrative disciplinary proceedings and defending law enforcement civil litigation in both state and federal courts. Richard also represents many other public sector agencies, specializing in all aspects of the negotiating process and in grievances and impasse proceedings arising in connection with the meet and confer process. Richard has participated in interest based fact-finding and arbitration periodically since 1975.
Richard’s commitment to representation of management in the bargaining field is exemplified by his representation and provision of bargaining counsel to municipalities having from 7 to 7,000 public safety employees. A savvy negotiator, Richard has participated in the negotiation of several hundred contracts regarding police, fire and general municipal units.
A member of the United States Supreme Court Bar, Richard is a frequent instructor at professional organizations throughout California. He is the author of Administrative and Legal Challenges to Law Enforcement Management and The Police Chief and Sheriff’s Bill of Rights Act, both Liebert Cassidy Whitmore guides to police management. He is also co-author of a manual on the Public Safety Officer’s Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
Richard received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
JAY KREITZ
Bio: Jay Kreitz is the senior civilian manager for the Glendale Police Department (GPD). As Public Safety Business Administrator, he is responsible for a staff of eight full-time personnel handling all department financial activities and managing the police facility in addition to the property and evidence bureau. Although he has only been in law enforcement with Glendale since 2002, Jay’s prior 22 years of experience in the private sector provide the department’s command staff with a unique perspective that continues to pay dividends in setting policy and strategic planning as budgets become tighter and service requirements increase.
His private sector career includes starting and building a real estate management business in southern California, which he then sold to a Japanese multi-national firm and was hired back to manage the new expanded operation for the Japanese owners. After five years of managing the US operation and providing expertise throughout the corporation’s operations in Asia, the CEO of the Japanese organization promoted Jay to corporate COO, and he spent the ensuing five plus years managing the corporation’s operations in Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia). The experience of managing a hugely diverse workforce working within one of the world’s most bureaucratic organizations (Japanese business) at a time when Asia was struggling through a significant economic downturn, provided him the tools and unique perspective to help strategically steer GPD and provide the department sound financial advice and reporting. Jay has co-instructed a real estate class at Tokyo’s Waseda University, prepared and provided extensive training to company personnel throughout Asia, and now provides financial and budget instruction as part of GPD’s management training classes.
Jay is the treasurer and director of the Glendale City Employees’ Federal Credit Union, Vice-President of the Glendale Managers’ Association, Chair of the City of Huntington Beach Community Services Commission, and president of his local homeowners’ association.
JEROME E. LANCE
Bio: Jerome Lance served in the Long Beach Police Department for 38 1/2 years at all ranks in most job assignments. He retired as Chief of Police in Dec. 2002. Since he retired he has served as the interim Director for the Center for Criminal Justice at CSULB Foundation in 2003 and as interim Chief of Police in the Oceanside Police Department from March 2005 till February 2006. He has continued to teach and consult for PMW since his retirement.
Chief Lance has a Bachelor and Masters Degree from California State University at Long Beach. He was a member of the first Command College Class put on by Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). He attended the FBI Academy, the FBI National Executive Institute and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard along with many other training and management classes. He has taught at CSULB and CSUF colleges in his career.
Chief Lance has been involved in many organizations over his career and always been in leadership positions. He is noted for his futuristic thinking and yet understanding and application of the basic police needs. He continues to look for better ways to help others deal with organizational and operational problems.
RANDY LATHAM
Bio: Randy is a retired police lieutenant from the La Verne Police Department in L.A. County with a total of 33 years in law enforcement. His has experience as a patrol officer, FTO, detective, detective sergeant, patrol sergeant and as a lieutenant watch commander. After many years of investigating and supervising cases of domestic violence, Randy authored the La Verne Police Department’s domestic violence response course in 1999, which was certified by POST.
After several years of instructing the course and retiring in 2005, he became a consultant with the La Verne Police Department for three additional years. In 2007 Lieutenant Latham authored a domestic violence response course for the Rio Hondo Police Academy in Whittier, California, where he became an advanced officer instructor. Randy has conducted 10 years of study into laws, restraining orders and procedures related to domestic violence. He has interviewed various instructors, investigators, deputy district attorneys, court judges and commissioners with experience in dealing with domestic violence cases. Additionally, Randy has reviewed many domestic violence response protocols employed by several law enforcement agencies in California and other states, and he has researched publications and procedures recommended by the U.S. Department of Justice and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Lieutenant Latham holds an associate degree in law enforcement from Chaffey College and a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of Redlands. He possesses basic through supervisory P.O.S.T. certificates and completed the POST management course accredited through Cal State University at Long Beach.
RON LOWENBERG
Bio: Ron Lowenberg retired in 2002 as the Police Chief from the Huntington Beach Police Department where he served for 13 years. He then served as the Interim Chief for the Pomona Police Department. He currently is Dean/Director Criminal Justice Training Center Golden West College. He began his professional career with the Cypress Police Department in 1967, where he spent 10 years and attained the rank of Sergeant. Following that Chief Lowenberg was a Lieutenant for Baldwin Park, and in 1978 he became a Captain for the Tustin Police Department. He was appointed Cypress Police Chief in 1981 and remained there until his selection as the Chief in Huntington Beach.
Chief Lowenberg obtained his Bachelor or Arts degree in Political Science from California State University, Long Beach, and his Associate in Arts degree in Criminal Justice from Golden West College. He is also a Command College graduate. Chief Lowenberg is past president of the California Police Chiefs Association and the Orange County Chiefs' and Sheriff's Association. He was appointed by the Governor in 1989 to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and served as a Commissioner until 1998. He was reappointed to the Commission by the Governor in 2005 and continues to serve to present.
Chief Lowenberg is a frequent instructor in leadership, management and supervision courses and has authored a number of articles appearing in a variety of professional journals.
SEAN MALINOWSKI, Ph.D.
Bio: Dr. Malinowski is a Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Police Department. His assignments have ranged from Patrol Sergeant to Aide to the Chief of Police. His Doctorate is in Public Administration, University of Illinois. Additionally, in 1993 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Egyptian National Police Academy. Other international assignments include: Senior Fellow, Institute of Homeland Security Management and Executive Director; Commission on Police Integrity. As an instructor he contributed to “HYDRA Critical Incident Management Training and International & Domestic Terrorism.” In his current assignments Dr. Malinowski is advanced projects and plans devoted to measuring both outputs and outcomes of police work. He is an expert on: COMSTAT, community policing, domestic terrorism, and measuring police performance.
JENNIFER K. McCAIN, J.D.
Bio: Jennifer K. McCain is the Assistant City Attorney for Escondido, California. She is responsible for advising all city departments on a variety of employment, benefit and liability related issues, including, progressive discipline, discrimination and sexual harassment, American's with Disabilities Act, Family Medical Leave Act, and a variety of labor related issues. Ms. McCain works extensively with law enforcement and advises the Internal Affairs Division on POBR related issues. Ms. McCain routinely advises the City in evaluating various claims and insurance related issues. Since the City is self-insured and self-administered, Ms. McCain also advises regarding the proper handling of all workers compensation claims. Ms. McCain also defends the City in many lawsuits, including employment and civil rights matters.
Before coming to Escondido, Ms. McCain served as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Diego. As a Deputy, Ms. Mccain served as a prosecutor and handled a variety of cases, including hate crimes. She also headed the Criminal Division's Diversity Committee. Prior to leaving San Diego, Ms. McCain served as the legal advisor to San Diego's Retirement System and Board of Trustees.
Ms. McCain obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of San Diego. During law school, Ms. McCain was a member of the San Diego Law Review.
FRANK McCOY
Bio: Frank McCoy has been the Chief of Police for Oceanside, CA, since January 2006. He started his career in 1984 as a police officer with the City of Manhattan Beach. After three years he lateraled to the Long Beach Police Department and rose through the ranks to the position of Commander. During Frank’s career, he have worked a wide variety of assignments: FTO, Gangs, Special Enforcement, Felony Car, Detectives, SWAT, Administration and Narcotics. As a Commander, Mr. McCoy was in charge of Detectives, West Patrol Division, North Patrol Division and Internal Affairs.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management, a B. S. Degree in Business Administration, and an A.A. Degree in Administration of Justice. Frank is a graduate of FBI National Academy (class 201), POST Executive Development Course and Supervisor Leadership Institute, and LAPD West Point Leadership Course.
He served eight years on the Cypress City Council that included titles of Mayor, Mayor Pro Temp, and Councilmember. This experience gave Frank great insight into City Government as a whole and better understanding on how to work with Council members.
PAUL MILLER
Bio: Detective Paul Miller is a 16 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. He is presently assigned to Major Crimes Division but is currently on loan as the OIC of the Incident Command Post Unit. He is a Department instructor for Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and Incident Command System (ICS). He teaches Incident Management for Supervisor's School and Watch Commander?s School for the LAPD.
In addition to a variety of patrol assignments, Detective Miller worked Incident Command Posts for the 1992 Civil Disorder, and the 1997 North Hollywood Bank Robbery/Shootout as well as many small field incidents. He was assigned as a field supervisor for the operations during the Y2K event. Shortly after the Y2K event, Detective Miller took a position within Anti-Terrorist Division. During his tour at Anti-Terrorist Division, he worked both as an investigator and analyst. He has worked both domestic and international cases and was a member of the Los Angeles Area JTTF.
It was during his tour of duty at Anti-Terrorist Division that he was asked to run the Incident Command Post Unit. The combination of expertise in both Intelligence and Incident Management has proven to be an asset to both of these areas of concern.
Detective Miller has also taught incident management and Terrorism Awareness outside the LAPD. Detective Miller has instructed for local jurisdictions and has been contracted by California State OES to teach ICS throughout the State. He is also working with federal agencies such as DHS and TSA. Detective Miller's most recent teaching requirement was conducted at the Homeland Security Operations Center. He was requested by the Assistant Director to teach ICS as it relates to the newly approved National Response Plan that incorporates the National Incident Management System and the Joint Field Office.
JARED MOSES
Bio: Jared Moses has been a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County since 1994. He graduated from New York University and UC Davis law school. He is currently assigned to the Training Division, and prior to that Mr. Moses spent over five years prosecuting homicides in the Hardcore Gang Division. He lectures for various law enforcement agencies and organizations including the National District Attorneys’ Association, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ Department, the California Department of Justice, and the California Gang Investigators’ Association.
J. CRAIG NEWLAND
Bio: Mr. Newland has worked for the Long Beach Police Department for the past 28 years. He has been assigned to Sexual Assault Investigations past 18 years. Craig developed the L.B.P.D.'s protocol for registration and tracking of sex offenders and for community notification regarding sex offenders. He has presented many community education meetings and forums pertaining to sex offenders.
In 1991 Craig helped to develop the L.B.P.D.'s Sexual Assault Response Team. This team was one of the first in LA County and is the only model in the State that utilizes Deputy District Attorneys as a part of a 24-hour initial response to sexual assault. He has personally investigated over 1500 sexual assault cases. Craig is a past officer and member of the board of the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency which operates the Long Beach Rape Hotline.
Craig obtained an A.A. Degree in Administration of Justice from Long Beach City College and is a 1993 graduate of Delinquency Control Institute at USC. He teaches POST certified classes throughout the state including: Sexual Assault Response Teams, Sexual Assault Investigations For First Responders, Advanced Sexual Assault Investigations and Sexual Assault for Public Safety Dispatchers. He has been a regular instructor at the Long Beach Police Academy for the past 19 years.
JAMES NUNN
Bio: Deputy Chief Nunn served with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for 34 years. He retired as the Chief of the Administrative Services Bureau, which addresses the departments Human Resource/Training/Scientific Investigations elements. Over his career he served as Commander of the Professional Standards Division dealing with Internal Affairs, Civil Liability, and Background Units. He also served as Commander of the Lake Arrowhead Station and the Regional Training Center. Outside the department he serving as the Chairman of the Police Legal Advisors for the California Peace Officers Association and co-authored the Pitchess Manual, the Skelly Manual, and the Internal Affairs Manual. Chief Nunn was elected and served for13 years on the San Bernardino County Retirement Board, three terms as Chairman, and he was the acting Administrator for six months. He currently sits on the Editorial Board for Thompson Publications in Washington D.C. He is a qualified expert in Federal Court on Police Policy and Training. Chief Nunn holds Basic, Intermediate, Advance, Supervisory, and Management P.O.S.T. certificates. Jim is a graduate of San Bernardino Valley College, Southern Illinois University, and the Wharton School of Finance. He currently is on staff at Cal State Long Beach, Cal State San Jose, and Cal State Humboldt in the P.O.S.T. Management Program.
STEPHEN OPPLER
Bio: Stephen Oppler joined the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in 1988 and is currently the Lieutenant in charge of the Public Integrity Division, which consists of the Public Integrity Unit and the Internal Welfare Fraud Unit. Prior to that Stephen worked in Organized Crime and Major Crimes and supervised a unit within the Joint Terrorism Task Force for four years. He started his 23 year career as a police officer in New Jersey. Lieutenant Oppler is a POST certified instructor and has instructed for approximately 10 to 12 years on topics such as Surveillance, Informant Management ,and Search Warrant Writing as well as Asset Forfeiture Investigation. In addition he holds a Real Estate License, an Insurance License, and is a Registered Representative with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
RONALD PERRET
Bio: In 2005, after 33 years of service with the San Bernardino County California Sheriff’s Department, Ron Perret retired as a Deputy Chief and member of the Sheriff’s Executive Staff.
As Deputy Chief, Ron’s Command was the Department’s Bureau of Field Operations, Region II. Region II, included 8 patrol stations, 5 sub-stations, 7 contract cities and more than 500 personnel with an overall annual bureau budget of nearly $64 million. The men and women of Region II served a population approaching 800,000 in a geographic area of more than 16,000 square miles of urban, mountain and desert environments. The region’s law enforcement operations span San Bernardino County from the Cajon Pass to the Colorado River.
During his tenure in the Executive Staff, Chief Perret coordinated complex criminal and personnel investigations and sat in review of allegations of employee misconduct and violations of policy. He participated in long range strategic planning, new policy development and modification of existing policy and procedure. Ron was instrumental in establishing policy to streamline procedures for the administrative documentation and analysis of officer-involved shootings and took part in the review and determination of administrative findings of more than one hundred such cases.
His Captain assignments included two patrol stations, managing both county and contract city law enforcement operations where he served in the capacity of Police Chief for the Town of Yucca Valley and the City of Twentynine Palms. He was the Commander of the Department’s Emergency Services/Volunteer Forces Division. There, he developed administrative procedures for the management of reserve officers and volunteers, and established department search and rescue standards. During this time, he participated in the formation of the County of San Bernardino’s Emergency Operations Center and associated policies, procedures and training curriculum. He was part of the development and implementation team for both the Sheriff’s Department and the County’s Emergency Operations Plans.
As Lieutenant in the Career Criminal/SWAT Detail, he became an active team member and participated in more than 200 tactical operations. He co-chaired the committee facilitating the department’s transition from revolvers to semi-automatic handguns and participated in the formation of the first San Bernardino County SMASH Gang Enforcement Unit. Patrol Sergeant brought three different assignments where collateral duties included coordinator of search and rescue teams and the creation of the department’s Underwater Search and Recovery/Dive Rescue Team. His detective assignments included the Headquarters Detective Bureau and Station Investigator. Ron began his career as a Deputy Sheriff, working corrections and patrol.
Throughout his career, Ron has served on several State committees formed to establish consistency in the management and response to disasters, outbreaks of civil unrest and search and rescue operations. He holds the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Supervision and Management P.O.S.T. Certificates and an Associates Degree in Administration of Justice. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of California at Riverside and a Vocational Education Program at California State University, San Bernardino.
Ron is the co-founder Desert Thunder - a Children’s Charity, a non-profit 501c3 charitable organization that holds an annual destination motorcycle rally in Primm, NV. Since 1997, Desert Thunder has donated the proceeds from these events to children’s charities in the Inland Empire of Southern California and Southern Nevada.
FRANK SCIALDONE
Bio: Chief Frank Scialdone was with the Fontana Police Department for 31 1/2years. He retired after serving as the City's Police Chief for almost five years. He spent 11 years as a Captain commanding both the Field Services and Administrative Services Divisions of the Fontana Police Department. As a Lieutenant, he commanded the department's Investigations Unit, was a Patrol Watch Commander, and conducted personnel investigation for more than five years. Frank has served as a Background Investigator and as a member of the Department's SWAT Team. Since retiring, Chief Scialdone has served as the Interim Police Chief for Pasadena City College and the Rialto Police Department. He has been a member of the Fontana City Council since December 2004, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Fontana Boys and Girls Club and President of the Fontana Rotary Club. He holds Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Supervisory, Management, and Executive certificates from POST. Chief Scialdone is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona with a Master of Arts Degree in Management, and he has a Bachelors degree in Criminology from California State University, Long Beach. He is also a graduate of Command College Class 17 and of the FBI National Academy Class 159. Chief Scialdone is married with three children and eight grandchildren.
RON SPICER
Bio: Lieutenant Ron Spicer is a 16 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. He is presently assigned as a watch commander for West Los Angeles Area. He spent the last seven years as the Officer-In-Charge of the Department Operations Center Unit, Emergency Services Division. He is a Department instructor for Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) as well as for terrorism awareness and operations. He is also a member of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) SEMS Training Specialist Committee.
His duties at Emergency Services Division included participation in the City of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Organization, and the Los Angeles County Terrorism Early Warning Group. In addition to a variety of patrol assignments, Lieutenant Spicer worked Incident Command Posts for the 1992 Civil Disorder, the 1995 Simpson Verdict, and the 1997 North Hollywood Bank Robbery/Shootout as well as many small field incidents. He managed DOC operations during the Y2K event, the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the World Trade Center terrorist attack, and the recent Iraq War.
He has received emergency management training from the California Specialized Training Institute, the National Interagency Counterdrug Institute, the Department of Defense, and the National Fire Academy. Coursework has included earthquake response, disaster recovery, exercise design, managing the consequences of terrorism, emergency response to terrorism, domestic preparedness for terrorism, haz-mat incident commander, and the Standardized Emergency Management System.
Lieutenant Spicer obtained a Bachelor's degree in Administrative Studies from the University of California, Riverside and a Master's degree in Negotiation and Conflict Management from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is also a graduate of the P.O.S.T. Supervisory Leadership Institute and the LAPD West Point Leadership Program.
Lieutenant Spicer is the first Certified Emergency Manager (C.E.M.) for the Los Angeles Police Department.
PAUL TURNER
Bio: The Honorable Paul Turner is the Presiding Justice, Division Five, Courts of Appeal, and a member of the Second Appellate District Executive Committee. On four occasions he has been assigned by the California Supreme Court to act as a Special Master in hearings ordered by the Commission on Judicial Performance. As a Presiding Justice he has sat by assignment on the California Supreme Court seven times. He started his career as a Municipal Court Judge in 1984. While in private practice he litigated both criminal and civil cases in federal and state courts. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach with his bachelor’s degree and subsequently from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in law.
RICHARD VALDEMAR
Bio: Richard Valdemar retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 2004. For most of his 33 years with the LASD he was involved in combating L.A. Gangs. For the last 20 years he was assigned to the Detective Division, Major Crimes Bureau. In 1977-78 he was assigned to the DEA and later to the U.S. Marshals, in the “Doc Holiday - Ray Ray Browning” federal drug conspiracy case. For more than 10 years he was part of the Federal Metropolitan Gang Task Force, cross designated as an FBI agent. Since 1985 he was a member of the California (Prison) Gang Task Force. He was the “gang expert” in the RICO prosecution of the Mexican Mafia in 1995 and the RICO of 1999 as well.
Before joining the LASD in 1970, he served three years as a Military Policeman with tours in Vietnam and Fort Huachuca Arizona. Prior to completing the LASD Academy, he was assigned to Intelligence and worked undercover infiltrating the Brown Berets and the Revolutionary Communist Party. After completing the Academy, he served four years in Custody Division where he first was exposed to working prison gangs. His past experience also includes patrol and gang suppression assignments in East Los Angeles, and his home town, Compton, California. Richard Valdemar’s prior experience includes being selected in 1978 as one of the original twelve founding Deputies to form the Sheriff’s Department‘s “Operation Safe Streets” anti-gang unit. He received anti-terrorist training in 1984 for the Olympics from the U. S. Secret Service and Department of Transportation and was the Detective Division’s Terrorist Liaison Officer when he retired.
Richard Valdemar is an internationally known expert in both traditional and non-traditional gangs. He has been a regular law enforcement trainer and instructor for the LASD Advanced Officers Gang School, California Gang Investigator’s Association, California District Attorney’s Association, California Narcotics Officers Association, the California Peace Officer’s Standards and Training organization (POST), the Los Angeles Municipal, and Superior Court Judges Associations, and numerous other agencies, colleges, and civic organizations throughout this country and in Canada. He has also been an instructor for the National Correctional Institute, and the National District Attorney’s Association. Richard Valdemar has given expert testimony before the California Senate Hearing Committee, the County and the Federal Grand Jury, and in numerous Federal, Superior and Municipal Court proceedings, including capital cases, in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange County, Ventura, Contra Costa, Sacramento and San Diego Counties He has been an Instructor and a Host for TREXPO for many years.
Richard Valdemar has been a consultant for the college textbooks, “Barrio Gangs” by Dr. James Diego Vigil, and “Gangs – A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs” by Dr. Al Valdez. He wrote an article for the February 2006 issue of Police Magazine entitled “Murder Ink”. He is a character in the novel “The Murder Children” by John Ball, and a quoted consultant in Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo’s current book, “In Mortal Danger.”
He has been featured in training broadcasts on the National Law Enforcement Network, “History of Hispanic Gangs”, and in 2005 completed training videos for the California Department of Corrections and the California Peace Officers Standards and Training, “Gangs the Hidden Threat”. He provided technical assistance and supervised the real Hispanic and African-American gang members used in the Michael Jackson music video “Beat It”. He was a technical advisor for the movies “Drug Wars – The Kiki Camerena Story” and “A Man Apart” staring Vin Diesel and Lorenz Tate. In 2006 he was featured on the History Channel for segments on “Military Policemen in Combat” and the “History of the Aryan Brotherhood” prison gang. He was also featured on Fox News Channel national broadcast “American Gangs: Ties To Terror?” with Newt Gingrich, and segments for MSNBC Scarborugh Country and Fox News Hannity & Colmes on the subjects of “Gangs in the Military” and “Gangs and Illegal Immigration”. Richard Valdemar can also be seen on 32 cable networks and on the net in several programs on the news program “Full Disclosure” ww.fulldisclosure.net.
Richard is currently working on books about the early days of the OSS gang unit, Terrorism, Police Gang Training, and on several motion picture projects. He is an active volunteer in several civic and police organizations and continues to pursue activities to benefit Law Enforcement and the American people.
JOE VARGAS
Bio: Captain Joe Vargas has been a police officer for the Anaheim Police Department for over 25 years. During this time he has worked as a hostage negotiator, field-training officer, and narcotics investigator. After his promotion to Sergeant in 1991, he was assigned as a field supervisor and later served as the community-policing supervisor for almost five years. In 1997 he proposed and created the position of Public Information Officer for the Anaheim Police Department. Lt. Vargas served as PIO for the department until his promotion to Lieutenant in 2000. Lt. Vargas was assigned as the incident commander during the 2002 World Series and 2003 Stanley Cup Playoffs. His assignments as a Lieutenant have included, Watch Commander, Strategic Services Bureau Commander, District Commander and Professional Standards Bureau Commander. Lt. Vargas has served as a board member of the Southern California Emergency Public Information Officers Association and was a founding member of the Orange County Public Information Officers Association. He also serves as the Vice Chairperson of the California Law Enforcement Image Coalition. He has trained Law Enforcement Officers and private industry personnel in media relations and crisis communications throughout southern California.
PAUL VERNON
Bio: Paul Vernon, Lieutenant, was the Public Information Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department from January 2005 to April 2007. Currently he is the commanding officer in charge of detectives for the Central Police Station in downtown Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Cal Poly, Pomona, with a Bachelor's Degree in History. Before becoming a police officer, Paul was a secondary-education teacher for four years in Southern California. He joined LAPD in 1988. His assignments have included patrol, field training officer, field supervisor, training supervisor, Internal Affairs investigator, watch commander, gang lieutenant, and PIO.
As a sergeant, Paul coordinated recruit training for three years at the Los Angeles Police Academy, graduating 40 classes and over 2,000 new officers. In 1997 and 1998, he wrote two well-regarded manuals used by LAPD, Personnel Complaint Investigations: A Guide for Supervisors and The Management Guide to Discipline. Both documents have been referenced in scholarly works and police-related studies by oversight commissions. He designed a three-day POST-certified course for Internal Affairs investigators, which is offered by LAPD. He has also designed a course on ethics, which he taught to Iowa law enforcement.
As a lieutenant, Paul helped to design the Complaint Management System, a subsystem of LAPD's TEAMS II program, a multi-layered police accountability tracking system. He automated many procedures at Internal Affairs and created timely reports for police managers on risk management issues. He designed oversight systems at Internal Affairs and as a Gang Coordinator of five divisions to ensure compliance with Federal Consent Decree provisions.
Paul graduated from the FBI's National Academy, Session 204, in 2001. He co-taught a public corruption seminar with the FBI for law enforcement in Nairobi, Kenya, and recently traveled to Seoul, South Korea, as part of a multi-cultural leadership visit. He is an instructor for LAPD's West Point Leadership Program and teaches at the POST Management Course for Lieutenants.Paul also teaches media relations for POST and consulted on the production of a POST tele-course on media relations.
As a PIO, Paul has appeared on camera and radio hundreds of times. He oversees the Media Relations Section, which handles on average 500 media requests and 10 news conferences a month.
STEVE WALKER
Bio: Steve Walker served with the Anaheim Police Department for over 31 years, retiring at the rank of Captain in 2004. His management experience includes three years as the Commander of the Special Operations Division. This division was comprised of the department’s undercover police operations, the Training Bureau, Planning and Research, the Chaplain Program, Reserve Program, the Air Bureau, Special Projects, and the Records Bureau. The division also had the responsibility for the Convention Center, the Anaheim Arena, and Angel Stadium. Highlights of this division were that he was the police manager responsible for the 2002 World Series when the Anaheim Angels played the San Francisco Giants and the Stanley Cup Championship when the Anaheim Ducks played the Detroit Red Wings at the Anaheim Arena. His experience also includes managing several bureaus and details including homicide, robbery, major assaults, sex crimes, domestic violence, as well as automation, purchasing, the budget and personnel.
After retiring from the Anaheim Police Department Steve felt the need to continue working and applied for a position with the Orange County District Attorney’s office. He was hired in May of 2006 and is currently assigned to the gang unit. He works with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin, Garden Grove, and Costa Mesa Police Departments. He is responsible for working gang related homicides and major crimes involving gangs with the various police agencies and the Deputy District Attorney’s preparing the cases for trial.
Steve obtained his Associates Arts Degree from Fullerton College, and his Bachelors Degree from California State University Fullerton, and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
MARILYN WHISENAND
Bio: Ms. Whisenand has over 25 years of management experience in a variety of government agencies. She has served as Assistant to the City Manager, City of San Diego, Vice-President, Centre City Development Corporation, City of San Diego, Executive Director of the Costa Mesa Redevelopment Agency and Executive Director of the Escondido Community Development Corporation.
Since 1981, she has been a partner and co-owner of PMW Associates and specializes in leadership training, organizational development and conflict resolution.
PAUL M. WHISENAND, Ph.D.
Bio: Dr. Whisenand is a professor emeritus of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach, and President/Founder of PMW Associates. He has received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He has been a technical consultant and researcher to a large number and variety of governmental agencies and private firms.
In the recent past, Dr. Whisenand served for: five years as a task force member to the California Council on Criminal Justice; five years as board member to the California Crime Technological Research Foundation; two years as a board member to the Los Angeles County Regional Criminal Justice Planning Board, and two years as a member of the Research and Development Task Force to the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. An outstanding lecturer and presenter, he has written 15 textbooks and over 60 articles pertaining to criminal justice management and training.
ROYLEEN A. WHITE
Bio: Royleen is President of Royleen White and Associates; RWA specializes in organizational & team development, performance improvement, facilitation and large-scale change. RWA works in partnership with clients to develop capabilities to continually learn, grow and improve. RWA's mission is to add value to clients' bottom line by providing quality independent consulting. Ms. White has a unique combination of skills, including managerial experience in local government, as well as technical expertise in training, organizational development, and group facilitation.
Royleen White served for 22 years in California local governments--the last twelve as a Department Head. Royleen is certified by POST to deliver team building workshops. She specializes in the public sector, and has worked with California police departments to build productive teams, manage change effectively, value diversity, and improve police services through quality initiatives.