William S. (Bill) Beam

Bill has been a law enforcement officer since first hired as a reserve Deputy Sheriff at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in 1975. He is currently the Chief Deputy for that agency and has been an instructor since 1981. During the past 29 plus years as a law enforcement officer, Bill has seen the evolution of law enforcement toward the community policing model. Bill was named Lincoln County Officer of the year three times during his career, and was tapped again to that honor this year for dedicated service to the county and to his fellow officers. Bill is one of those instructors that will keep your attention, make you laugh, think, and learn all at the same time. Bill teaches the COP model because he believes it is the best means for officers to accomplish their goal within the community. 

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Phillip T. Bosche, Jr

As a Captain with the Charlotte Fire Department Training Division, Phil oversees the delivery of Hazardous Materials and WMD training to the fire department as well as the Hazardous Materials Team. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Memphis with a dual concentration in Fire Protection / Fire Administration and an Associate’s degree in EMS. As a former Flight Paramedic, he couples his EMS, fire, Haz-Mat and Urban Search and Rescue training and experience as a Medical Group Leader with the Charlotte Fire Department USAR Task Force.  

 Officer Wesley Branham

Officer Wes Branham if a 14 year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Officer Branham has been assigned to Bike Patrol duties for the past 10 years. His current assignment is with the Freedom Division Bike Patrol.

Officer Branham is a North Carolina Certified General Instructor and  a Master Instructor through the Law Enforcement Bicycle Association (LEBA).  He is also the current President of the Law Enforcement Bicycle Association. Interested persons can learn more about Law Enforcement Bicycle Association by going to their web site at www.leba.org. 

Detective Charlie Brown

Detective Brown has served with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department since 1990 and is currently assigned to the Highway Interdiction and Traffic Safety Unit.  He is a certified Crash Re-constructionist as well as a Radar and Time/Distance Instructor.

Terry Burgin

Terry Burgin has compiled more than 30 years in law enforcement work and training experience.  He has instructed a variety of subject matters to criminal justice employees, other public safety personnel and the general public. Burgin has worked and trained in various positions including patrol, chief investigator, and chief of police. He retired as a 13-year veteran police chief for the City of Lincolnton in March of 2003. Students he has instructed include hundreds of new recruits and veteran officers here in the United States and other countries. He is a 1984 graduate of the FBI National Academy; and a 1998 graduate of the A.M.O.P., having served as state president and class president of those organizations respectively; also Burgin served as the President of SPLETA (Southern Piedmont Law Enforcement Training Officers Association). He is currently serving as an active reserve officer for the City of Lincolnton. 

Dale Callan

Dale Callan is a retired U.S. Postal Inspector, where he served in various assignments in the Boston Division for the US Postal Inspection Service. He comes to us with 29 years experience in federal law enforcement that included identity theft, mail fraud, electronic crimes, credit card fraud and major crimes investigations. He is a subject matter expert in Identity Theft crimes and firearms training. He was co-leader and founder of the NH Identity Theft Intelligence Group with the US Attorney’s Office in Concord, NH.  He also served as a member of the NH Federal Anti-terrorist Task Force. Dale was also a  Special Agent with US Army Intelligence working counterintelligence and counterespionage cases in Korea. He assisted the NH Police Academy as a guest lecturer on Identity Theft and financial crimes investigations.  As a member of IAFCI  (International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators) he provided expertise in a variety of financial and electronic crimes.

Dale is currently the Program Developer for the Forensic Academy responsible for instructing and developing courses for the Electronic Crimes/Digital Forensics program. He also identifies qualified instructors, reviews equipment, works with marketing and evaluates the objectives and goals of the Forensic Academy. 

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Sergeant Tim Cardwell

Tim has been in Law Enforcement for over 21 years.  He was with a Municipal Department for three (3) years and has spent the last 18 years with the North Carolina Highway Patrol.  He has 16 years experience in Criminal Interdiction, eight (8) years of that time as a supervisor and six years as a canine officer.  He is recognized as an expert nationally in the field of Criminal Interdiction and  has been involved in hundreds of criminal stops ranging from murder, robbery, stolen vehicles, fugitives, narcotics and currency trafficking, fraud, etc.  Tim has made or been personally involved in hundreds of significant drug seizures, and his drug arrests include the State of North Carolina’s top five (5) marijuana seizures and four (4) of the top five (5) cocaine seizures, all resulting from self-initiated vehicle stops.  All of Tim’s arrests are the result of “cold” traffic stops, stops made with no prior knowledge the vehicle contained suspects or contraband.  Finally, Tim has testified at all levels of the court system, both in and out of the state of North Carolina and at the federal level.

Tim is a nationally recognized instructor and has provided Criminal Interdiction training to thousands of law enforcement officers throughout the United States and Canada.  He developed a sixteen hour basic Criminal Interdiction course that he teaches at the Community College level throughout the state.  He is an Associate Instructor for the Federal Highway Administration’s Drug Interdiction Assistance Program and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Operation Pipeline Program.

Officer Joe Carey

Officer Joe Carey has been employed with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department for 11 years.  He has been assigned to the department’s Highway Interdiction and traffic Safety (HITS) Unit for 6 years and has been a radar/vascar instructor for 5 years.

Sergeant Irwin Carmichael

Sgt. Carmichael is currently employed by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office and has served in that capacity for 18 years.  He is also an Engineer with the Charlotte Fire Department and has served in that capacity for 18 years.  He is the owner of the Martial Arts Training Institute and is an instructor in Kempo Karate.  He is an eighth degree black belt in Shorinji Kempo Karate.  He also instructs in Balintawak/Escrima and Modern Arnis and has been inducted into the Sokeship Hall of Fame.  Sgt. Carmichael is a certified instructor through the NC Department of Justice in Subject Control Arrest Techniques, Spontaneous Self Defense for Detention Officers and Unarmed Self Defense. 

Paul Cash

Paul Cash have thirty-four years of law enforcement experience.  Eight of those years were spent working in prisons and jails.  He is a nationally known instructor and has spent the last eighteen years traveling through-out the United States conducting law enforcement training.  During his law enforcement career he served as a sergeant, captain, and major.  He also spent two years as a Chief Deputy with a Sheriff’s Office and four years as a Police Chief.  He has worked in departments with as few as two officers up to as many as 1300.  He trains personnel in the areas of supervision, leadership, internal affairs, SWAT and hostage negotiations.  Mr. Cash is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.  He also holds a 6th degree black belt in Kempo Karate, a 2nd degree black belt in Karate-Do and a 1st degree black belt in Jujitsu and weapons.

Sergeant J.D. Cox

Sgt. Cox has been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 24 years.  Twenty-two of those years, he has served on SWAT, eleven of those as a sniper. He also has served six years as a bicycle officer.   He is a certified instructor through the NC Dept. of Justice and the Law Enforcement Bike Association.  He has taught many officers in General Instructor Certification courses and has assisted in training over 400 law enforcement officers in Basic and Advanced Bike Patrol  He is also a Master Rappel Instructor and a High Ropes Instructor.  Sgt. Cox is currently assigned to the Hickory Grove division of CMPD as the Administrative Sergeant.

Jack A. Davis

Jack A. Davis is a proven leader in the military, law enforcement and business with successful careers in each field.  During a career life that spans over 35 years he has honed his leadership skills and developed the ability to share those skills in all facets of life.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and two master’s degrees, and has received leadership and professional training worldwide.

Jack’s Marine Corps career began with his commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant upon college graduation in 1968 and has seen him rise to the rank of Major General.  In a distinguished career that includes service in both peacetime and wartime he has commanded at every level from an infantry platoon in Vietnam to Commanding General of the 4th Marine Division.  He has held various staff positions including Director of Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps in which he oversaw Corps-wide operations, policy and planning.  His most current Marine Corps assignment is that of Vice Commander, Marine Corps Forces Atlantic/Deputy Commander Marine Corps Forces Europe.

As a Marine, Jack has completed numerous military schools, including  the NATO Joint Warfare Course, United Kingdom; Reserve Components National Security Course; and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Executive Program for General Officers of the Russian Federation and the United States.  His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit with gold star in lieu of second award; Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V”; Purple Heart with gold star in lieu of second award;  Meritorious Service Medal;  Navy Commendation Medal with Combat “V”;  and the Combat Action Ribbon.

Jack completed a notable career in law enforcement, serving five years in federal law enforcement before joining the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in 1979.   He was a leader in the development and implementation of a multifaceted and highly successful approach to drug interdiction.  He concurrently served as the supervisor of the Special Response Team, dealing with high risk/high profile situations advancing the unit to one of the most respected in the nation.

Jack’s last law enforcement assignment was that of supervisor for the Violent Crime Task Force in Charlotte, NC.  The Task Force, commended nationally for its great success in reducing violent crime in a major urban area, serves as a model for interagency cooperation in achieving overall success. In 1999 Jack retired from the North Carolina SBI with a distinguished record of service.

In the business arena he has established JA Davis & Associates as a frontrunner in leadership and security training development.  He currently serves on the board of directors of several organizations.

David M. Dawson

Special Agent (SA) David Dawson is a native of North Carolina. He was raised in Greensboro, NC and graduated from NC State University with a degree in engineering. After graduation SA Dawson spent eight years investigating and orchestrating the cleaning up of Superfund Sites and working as a project manager on the Navy’s largest chemical munitions destruction project. SA Dawson joined the FBI in 1999. He has had assignments with the FBI NCRS/JTTF, and is a member of the FBI’s Hazardous Materials Response Team. On September 11, 2001; SA Dawson was a first responder to the attack on the Pentagon and assisted in coordinating the activities of the numerous emergency services personnel responding to the attack. SA Dawson would later be assigned to the case for the “Amerithrax Investigation,” responsible for the investigation of the anthrax attacks of 2001. SA Dawson is currently assigned to the FBI, Charlotte Division as the WMD Coordinator. 

Captain David Dufresne

David Dufresne has over 12 years experience in Law Enforcement. David started his career with the Mecklenburg County Sheriffs Office in 1994. At the Sheriffs Office, David was a Deputy Sheriff assigned to the Intake Center. In 1997, he changed agencies and began working as a Patrol Officer with the Matthews Police Department. David Dufresne has worked as a Patrol Officer, Criminal Investigator, Patrol Sergeant and is currently the Patrol Commander and Tactical Commander for the Department. David has over 20 years martial arts experience and holds Black Belts in Shorinji Kempo and Shorinji Budo. He is a certified as an Instructor, Firearms Instructor, Subject Control/Arrest Techniques Instructor, Ground Fighting Instructor and Rapid Deployment Instructor.

Eric Duft

Eric Duft graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1991 where he received a BS in Criminology. Following graduation he worked as a counselor, mainly counseling families where there was a substance abuse problem. In 1996, Duft completed the Pennsylvania State Police Academy and graduated class Valedictorian. In July 1996, he was hired by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department where he worked two years as a patrol officer then was assigned to the districts Street Drug Interdiction Unit  working as a Street Drug Interdiction Officer for approximately three years. In 2001 Duft was assigned to the Vice and Narcotics Bureau as a detective working in that capacity for three years. In March 2004 he was assigned to the DEA Task Force as a Task Force Officer where he is currently assigned. As an additional duty, Duft is a BLET instructor at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Academy.

Kevin Dunaway

Kevin Dunaway is currently employed by the North Carolina National Guard Couterdrug Task Force. His present assignment is Director of Training for the Mid-Atlantic Narcotics Training Academy (MANTA). Kevin has been working in his current assignment since 1997. During his career, Kevin has been assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation OCDETF Task Force and as a Narcotics Investigator with the Bladen County Sheriff’s Department. Kevin has been a sworn law enforcement officer (active and reserve) since 1995.   During his military career Kevin has served in a variety of positions, to include but not limited to scout platoon sergeant, Medical services officer and combat engineer. Dunaway is a graduate of several law enforcement courses to include, but not limited to the FLETC Criminal Intelligence Analyst Training Program, FLETC/ATF Advanced Undercover Techniques Course and the National Academy of Police Diving, Tactical Diver Course.  Dunaway is also a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Forrest D. Earley

Forest D. Earley is currently employed as a Weapons of Mass Destruction Consultant / Instructor for SAIC / EAI Corporation instructing for the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama.

Mr. Earley is also currently employed as a Reserve Sergeant at the Lenoir, NC Police Department where he serves as the In-Service Training Coordinator, Reserve Program Supervisor and Instructor. He is also a Reserve Deputy with the Burke County Sheriff’s Department in Morganton, North Carolina. Mr. Earley is a retired Trooper from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, where he served as a member of the Interstate Enforcement Team, State Evaluator for Fixed Nuclear Power Plants and as a General, Radar/Time-Distance, Driving, Hazardous Materials Instructor, and Radiological Emergency Preparedness Instructor at the NCSHP Training Academy. Mr. Earley has also served as a Wildlife Enforcement Officer for the NC Wildlife Resources Commission.

Mr. Earley currently instructs courses for various schools of the North Carolina Community College System. He has been awarded the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Law Enforcement Certifications by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standard Commission. He is certified by the NCCJETSC to instruct General Law Enforcement Courses in Basic Law Enforcement Training and In-Service Training as well as specialized certifications for Law Enforcement Driving, Hazardous Materials Emergencies, Radar, Time-Distance, Lidar, as well as Incident Command System series of courses. He is certified to instruct and evaluate the NCCJETSC instructor programs. Mr. Earley is a Level II Fire Instructor thru the North Carolina State Fire Marshall’s office.

Forrest retired on 01 June 2007 from the North Carolina Air National Guard as the Chief of Fire and Emergency Services for the 145 Airlift Wing at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, NC. He has held the position of the State Command Chief Master Sergeant for the NC Air National Guard as well as many other Senior Enlisted positions.

Thalia J. Ellis

Thalia J. Ellis is a retired Sergeant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. She has worked as a Highway Patrol officer from rural Arizona on the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations to the Metro-Phoenix area. She was promoted to Sergeant in 1991 and has worked on executive protection details and other criminal justice support roles for the state.   She relocated to North Carolina in 1995 and pursued her firearms certifications in this state. She is a NRA pistol Instructor, a North Carolina Concealed Carry Handgun Instructor, a firearms trainer for the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board as well as an OC Instructor, Chemical Munitions, Distraction Devices and Specialty Impact Devices Instructor. For the past 2 years Ms. Ellis worked with the Blackwater Training Center teaching firearms and security training to military and law enforcement personnel.  She has recently relocated to the Charlotte area and is working with CPCC and BLET firearms training courses.

Officer Wes Eubank

Officer Wes Eubank has been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department since 1983.  He has been a certified state instructor since 1986.  Officer Eubank has been teaching Radar, and Time Distance since 1986.  Officer Eubank also teaches SFST and collision reconstruction.  Officer Eubank serves on the State SMI Committee, which reports directly to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education Training & Standards Commission.

John J. Galland

Mr. Galland graduated from South Dakota State University with a double major in Biology and Wildlife Fisheries Sciences and a double minor in Chemistry and Military Science. He joined the Army in 1981 and served for over twenty-three years as an Infantry and Special Forces Officer. He commanded everything from a Special Forces A-team, Infantry Rifle Company to a Special Forces Battalion and participated in operations in Korea, Colombia, Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.  He received his Masters Degree from Webster University in Security Management. When he retired from the Army in 2004, he held the rank of Colonel. He is currently working for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. John has had extensive experience instructing leadership topics while in the military.

Andrew Garfield

Andrew Garfield serves as the European Director for the Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (TRC) In this capacity, Mr. Garfield is responsible for TRC outreach and business initiatives within Europe. In addition, Mr. Garfield provides direct support to U.S. military and commercial customers wishing to utilize his extensive expertise on terrorism and security issues.

Previously, Mr. Garfield served as a military then senior civilian intelligence officer, finishing his government service as a senior policy advisor in the UK Ministry of Defense. His specializations include Terrorism, Homeland Security, Psychological Warfare and Information Operations. Since September 11th 2001, he has worked extensively for clients within the U.S. Department of Defense - for example participating in terrorism workshops for the Office of Net Assessments, US Marine Corps, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Joint Warfare Analysis Center. He also lectures extensively in the UK and USA (including for the Defence Intelligence Agency and 4th Psychological Operations Group) on these topics, and is a regular contributor for CNN, the BBC, Sky Televisions and many US and UK newspapers and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal. He is currently the project leader for a major DoD funded study that is building a generic model of a terrorist organization and identifying common patterns of terrorist activity based on a detailed examination of recent terrorist campaigns. This model will also assess the various approaches adopted to combat terrorism determining the success and failure of each and identifying those tools and techniques that might be applicable to the current War.

Mr. Garfield is also the Deputy Director of the International Policy Institute of King's College London with special responsibility for North America.    

Michael E. Grimes

“Mike” Grimes is retired from 28 years service as a federal narcotics agent. He served with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the successor agency, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. During his enforcement service Grimes served in the Washington, DC, and Wilmington, NC, offices with numerous TDY assignments in the United States and abroad.
Grimes, a leading expert in the field of informant development and control, is the author of “A Guide for Developing and Controlling Informants”, published by LawTech, Inc. He is President of Criminal Investigation Techniques, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to protecting officers through risk assessment audits and establishing standards for informant handling.
During his career with DEA and since, Grimes has been a primary instructor in federal, state, and local law enforcement academies, in informant handling, report writing, and conducting asset forfeiture investigations. He has also lectured extensively in community colleges and universities. Grimes has taught thousands of law enforcement officers and prosecuting attorneys in agencies nationwide.
Grimes is the author of two magazine articles dealing with informants. Grimes’ passion for teaching officers is immediately apparent in his classes and he has consistently received top ratings from his students on both knowledge and interest.
Grimes’ other great passions are boating and fishing. He recently completed construction of a 38-foot lobster yacht and is always interested in talking to other boat builders and fishermen.

Sergeant Michael Hervey

Sgt. Hervey has been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 19 years, 13 at the rank of sergeant.  He is currently the supervisor over the SWAT team and has served in that position for 12 years.  He has been a certified instructor through the NC Department of Justice since 1994,  a certified instructor evaluator since 1997 and a certified Firearms Instructor since 2000.  He has received SWAT training from the FBI, United States Secret Service and the National Tactical Officers Association.

Investigator Dave Holland

Investigator Holland has been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 19 years.  Prior to that he was employed as a deputy with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office for nine years.  He is currently assigned to the CMPD’s Felony Investigations Bureau and has served in that capacity for 14 years.  He is a certified instructor through the NC Department of Justice and has an Associates Degree in Criminal Justice from Central Piedmont Community College.  In his current assignment, he averages over 100 interviews or interrogations per year.  Using that experience, he has developed several in-service training classes for law enforcement to include Interview and Interrogation, Kinesics, Auto Theft Investigation, Cognitive Interviewing Techniques, Telephonic Interviewing Techniques and Basic Criminal Investigations.  He also has had a number of these lesson plans approved by the NC Department of Insurance which he uses for in-service training for insurance adjusters and SIU investigators.

Officer Scott Jordan

Officer Jordan has been employed with the Charlotte – Mecklenburg Police Department for 14 Years.  He is currently assigned to the Highway Interdiction & Traffic Safety Unit and has been in that assignment for 10 years.  His main job function in the HITS unit is the Investigation of Fatal Crashes.  He has investigated over 400 Personal Injury Crashes and has reconstructed over 200 Fatal Crashes. Officer Jordan  has been certified as an Expert Witness in District, Superior, and Civil Court in the field of Traffic Crash Reconstruction. He has attended over 1500 hours of training and has testified in a number of high profile crashes relating to traffic reconstruction field. He instructs At Scene, Advanced, Traffic Crash Reconstruction, Pedestrian Crash, Motorcycle and Commercial Motor Vehicle at Stanley Community College and Central Piedmont Community College. Scott also teaches the At – Scene Level at the Charlotte – Mecklenburg Police Academy.

Ann McIntosh

Anne McIntosh is a native North Carolinian. Her education includes BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, Masters from University of Montana at Missoula, and Doctorate from University of Texas at Austin. She has been teaching communication courses at the college level since 1988. Currently on faculty at CPCC, Dr. McIntosh is an active researcher who presents her work at conferences and through publications. She is the author of Sometimes I Talk, Sometimes I Sign, a children's intercultural book and A Montana Love Affair: Letting Go and Being Free, a fiction about healing after relationship breakup's. She owns Communication Connection, a consulting firm that specializes in workshop training for law enforcement, fire, medic, hospitals, school systems, law firms, and companies wanting to improve communication skill levels. She and her husband live in the Lake Norman area with their two children.

Detective Bob Melton

Detective Bob Melton is currently assigned to the Vice and Narcotics Bureau at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Academy.  He has served approximately 15 years as a law enforcement officer, nine of those in Vice and Narcotics officer and one on a street drug interdiction unit.  In November 2003 he was involved ina case in which 109 video poker machines were seized along with $46,000.00 in cash. He has been involved in many high-profile illegal gambling cases in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area.

Captain Glen Neimeyer

Glen Neimeyer joined the Charlotte Police Department in 1984 and has  fourteen years as an operating member of the Department’s SWAT Team. He is currently assigned as the Commander of the Tactical Support Division. This Division includes the Aviation Unit,  SWAT Team, Counterterrorism Unit (known as ALERT), Civil Emergency Unit,  Passenger Vehicle for Hire Unit, and the K-9 Unit. For several years Neimeyer has also served as the coordinator for many of the police department’s Homeland Security initiatives. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Administration of Justice from the Pennsylvania State University and has several published articles on issues relating to Homeland Security.

Stephanie W. Nissen

Stephanie W. Nissen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in North Carolina and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the state of Florida. She also carries a national certification in counseling (NCC). She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami in 1992 and completed her Master of Science Degree at Nova Southeastern University in 1995. Following her practicum training at Miami Mental Health Center, Inc., she obtained clinical experience at the Community Health of South Dade, Inc. where she developed skills in handing chronic mental illness such as schizo-phrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, chemical dependency and personality disorders including antisocial personality disorder, previously referred to as psychopathy.

In 1999 Stephanie Nissen joined the Psychological Services Section of the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) and served there until her relocation out of state in 2005. Her duties included providing psychotherapy to police officers and their families. She responded to departmental critical incidents such as police involved shootings, in cus-tody deaths and car accidents. She was an instructor for the MDPD’s Training Bureau and focused on in-service and academy courses requiring a knowledge of law enforcement and psychology. She developed and managed the Substance Abuse Intervention Program that served the 5000 employees of MDPD. In addition, she was a consultant to the Special Response Team Police Negotiators and took part in review boards particular to police trainees experiencing difficulty in the academy.
Stephanie Nissen moved to North Carolina and in 2006, accepted a position with Magellan Health Services where she is a District Consultant for the United States Postal Service. She oversees the Employee Assistance Program for half of the postal workers and their families in the state of North Carolina and is an executive consultant to District management.
Lastly, Ms. Nissen maintains a private practice limited to first responders in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Doug Norwood

Doug Norwood is the Public Safety Training Program Developer for CPCC. He has an AAS Degree in Criminal Justice from Gaston College, and has been awarded two Advanced Certificates from the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and Sheriff’s Education and Training Standards Commission. He has more than 20 years of experience in the criminal justice field (including four in corrections, ten with the NC Division of Motor Vehicles and seven with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office). Mr. Norwood’s specialties while with DMV included accident reconstruction, hazardous materials and motor vehicle law. While serving with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office he served as a School Resource Officer, Lake Patrol Officer, Community Police Officer and as First Sergeant over Staff Development and Training. He remains at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office as an Auxiliary Deputy. Mr. Norwood has been a Criminal Justice General Instructor since 1989 and holds specializations in Firearms and Law Enforcement Driver Training. He also holds other instructor certifications in the following:  Radiological Monitor, TASER, Pepper Spray, Hazardous Materials, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Officer Safety, Rapid Deployment, CMV Enforcement and CMV Motor Coach Enforcement.  Mr. Norwood has instructed in-service and/or BLET courses at Central Carolina Community College, Wake Technical Community College, Pitt Community College, Gaston College and the North Carolina Justice Academy.

Raffy Paubuan

Mr. Raffy Paubuan posses over 30 years of experience regarding martial arts with considerable background pertaining to Okinawan Shotokan, Kung Fu, Boxing, Filipino Silat, Dumog, and Arnis. He has appeared as Martial Arts extra in the popular television series, Mortal Combat, distributed by Universal Orlando. Mr. Pambuan has conducted Law Enforcement seminars locally, nationally and internationally within Orlando, Daytona, Washington DC, New York, Germany, France, and the Philippines to name a few. Mr. Pambaun has trained Border Patrol, INS, US Marshal Service, Secret Service, ATF and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Jason Purgason

Jason is the training director of Highland Canine Training, LLC. A Police Officer and former Police Canine Handler, Jason conducts police canine handler courses as well as all pet obedience and working dog training. Jason earned his Police Canine Instructor's Certification and has trained canines in the areas of Narcotics Detection, Explosives Detection, Police Patrol, Urban Disaster, Scent Discrimination Tracking and Cadaver Detection. Jason has instructed seminars for Police Canine Handlers at NASA, the Pentagon Police and for many other professional, government and law enforcement teams across the country.

Detective Allen Raby

Detective Raby has been employed with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for eleven years.  He is currently assigned to the Highway Interdiction and Traffic Safety Unit and has served on that unit for three years.  His main job function on this team is to reconstruct fatal motor vehicle crashes. While serving with HITS, he has had the opportunity to reconstruct 75 fatal crashes.  He currently instructs all three levels of Traffic Crash Re-construction as well as Pedestrian Crash Re-construction, Commercial Motor Vehicle Crash Re-construction and Motorcycle Crash Re-construction.  He has taught at Central Piedmont Community College, Stanly Community College and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Academy.

Lieutenant Shaun Smart

Shaun began his law enforcement career as a Trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.  He earned his reputation while working in the Montgomery and Preble County areas.  He has been a direct line supervisor (sergeant) of Traffic/Drug Interdiction Team (TDIT) officers and was selected by the division to head the entire interdiction program as TDIT Coordinator (Lieutenant).  He has been involved in thousands of criminal arrests for crimes ranging from murder to drug smuggling to bank fraud and has made or been personally involved with over two hundred and fifty significant seizures of illegal drugs.  The concealment methods involved in these cases ranges from the contraband sitting in the trunk, to the location and accessing of sophisticated electronically controlled false compartments.  His drug arrests include the State of Ohio’s record roadway cocaine interdiction stop (502 pounds) as well as state record Black Tar Heroin (2 kilograms) and Crystal Methamphetamine (One kilogram) seizures.  He is responsible for six of the top ten marijuana cases, including two incidents involving the seizure of 788 pounds and 622 pounds of marijuana, both based on consent to search.  All of the stops initiated by Mr. Smart were “cold” stops.  In other words, Mr. Smart has never made a significant arrest based on prior knowledge or investigation.  Since his return to the Patrol in October, 2000, Mr. Smart has been responsible for the seizure of more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana (including a tractor-trailer seizure of 1,300 pounds), over ten multi-kilo seizures of cocaine, as well as seizures of ecstasy, methamphetamine, heroin, currency and the generation of numerous personal-use drug cases.  In addition to his work record, Mr. Smart has a 99.99% conviction rate and has testified at all levels of the court system, to include state and federal.

Shaun has trained, on duty and off, more than 5,000 law enforcement officers—in Ohio, Canada, and across the United States—in the areas of criminal and drug interdiction.  During the course of his almost fourteen years of service, he developed a very popular, motivational teaching style that enables him to pass on to other officers the techniques needed to succeed in legally and correctly identifying criminals in the very short time of the average traffic stop.  He was asked by his division to create a training program and instructional video in the areas of criminal and drug interdiction. He is an Associate Instructor for the Federal Highway Administration’s Drug Interdiction Assistance Program and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Operation Pipeline Program.

Jerry Spencer

Jerry Spencer is currently employed by the North Carolina Counter-drug Task Force. In his current assignment he serves as Senior Training Coordinator at the Mid Atlantic Narcotics Training Academy. His prior assignment with the task force was as a criminal intelligence analyst and vessel commander assigned to U.S. Customs /RAIC Wilmington. During his career he has participated in a number of extended woodland operations, in military, law enforcement and a civilian capacity. He and Kevin Dunaway have taught Manhunt and Land Navigation over thirty times throughout the state. Training Jerry has received during his 14 year military career includes but is not limited to: U.S. Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (High Risk) School, FLETC’s Marine Law Enforcement Training Program, Advanced Marine Law Enforcement, SRT1 and 2, criminal intelligence analysis and others. Jerry is also a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Steve Tidwell

Officer Tidwell has been a law enforcement officer since 1992, serving with the Davidson Police Department. Prior to becoming a law enforcement officer, he served four years in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Soldier. The majority of his law enforcement career has been in Vice/Narcotics Investigations. Tidwell has served as the Team Leader for two special response teams, and is currently the team leader for the Davidson Team.

Robert Tizon

Robert Tizon has been involved in law enforcement for over 18 years and currently serves as a full-time Antiterrorism Officer and investigator for the North Carolina Air National Guard (NCANG). He is a member of the FBI-Joint Terrorism Task Force and the USAF OSI Counter-Terrorism Team.

He started his career in the U.S. Air Force, where he worked patrol and investigations. Upon completing active duty, he became a police officer and gang specialist in Loudoun County, VA. Afterwards, he became a Law Enforcement Analyst and Gang Specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Here, he was responsible for responding to law enforcement information requests and special projects from members of Congress, State and local practitioners and officials.

Rob has an Associates and Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice and is currently pursuing his Masters in Business Administration. He is certified through the NC Department of Justice as a General Instructor and Basic Anti-Terrorism Awareness (BATA) Instructor and is also a certified State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Instructor through the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. Having completed over 1500 hours of gang training, Rob continues to stay current by attending various gang training and seminars.

Rob is an active member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM); the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA); and the NC Gang Investigators Association (NCGIA). He is also an honorary life member of the Police Association for College Education (PACE) and was invited to speak at a Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) conference. Rob has been a Criminal Justice General Instructor since 2003 and is not only an in-service and BLET instructor for Central Piedmont Community College, but also serves on the Public Safety Advisory Board.

Dr. Joseph V. Trahan III

Dr. Trahan is the Master Public Affairs Instructor, Resident Mass Communications and Media Relations expert and Chief-Mobile Training Team for the Department of Defense Information School (DINFOS). He also teaches public relations courses at several area universities.

Dr. Trahan graduated from Tulane University with a bachelor’s degree in American Military history. He also holds a master’s degree in Public Relations from Ball State University and a doctorate in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations and Advertising from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Detective Todd Watson

Detective Watson has been employed with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 14 years and is currently assigned to the Highway Interdiction and Traffic Safety Unit.  He has served in that capacity for four years.  He is currently a certified instructor through the NC Department of Justice.  He also is certified as a Standardized Field Sobriety Testing instructor.  He is also a certified Collision Reconstructionist. 

Sergeant James H. Windle

Jim is employed as a Police Sergeant in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he serves as a certified bomb technician and is assigned as the Bomb Squad Commander and Arson Supervisor.  He is certified as a North Carolina Law Enforcement Instructor and has advanced instructor training in Specialized Police Driving, Firearms, Officer Survival, and Hazardous Materials. He is an instructor for the United States National Domestic Terrorism Preparedness Program and has delivered terrorism training to numerous governmental agencies both police and military as well as private security.

Jim began his experience in explosives from his service as a member of the United States Marine Corps providing training in mines and booby traps here and with NATO forces overseas. As a police bomb technician he graduated from the F.B.I.’s Hazardous Devices School at Redstone Arsenal and ATF's Advanced Explosives Destruction Techniques. He is also crossed trained as a Hazardous Materials Technician. He has worked site security and threat assessment in conjunction with U.S. Secret Service and U.S. State Department for domestic and foreign dignitary protection missions. Jim was sent to Israel to train with Israeli bomb technicians on countermeasures for suicide bombers and vehicle bombs.