TIMOTHY SELLERS 
merican, Allied, and Afghan lives were saved because of the apprehension of these perpetrators of heinous acts against the Afghan people, which in turn uplifted and renewed the Afghan’s support of the United States.
Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Supervisory Special Agent Sellers worked 33 years in the state of Texas, serving as a Police Officer, and as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. During his Texas assignments, he worked extensively in undercover assignments penetrating and dismantling large scale Mexican trafficking organizations.
SSA Sellers was awarded the United States Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Heroism, the DEA Administrator’s Award of Valor for Actions in Afghanistan, the DEA Administrator’s Award for Service at the Oklahoma City Bombing, and was nominated for a Service to America Medal for Counterterrorism. SSA Sellers retired from DEA in 2006. SSA Sellers has appeared on Fox News, Hannity and Colmes and MSNBC, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Radigan.
Attorney Peter F. Boyce
Peter F. Bo Peter F. Boyce is a graduate of the United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's Presentation Skills Course. In addition to his seminar presentations related to undercover buy-busts and the importance of training, he has made multiple presentations at the annual meeting of the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, as well as presentations related to police ethics, supervisory liability, street survival, profiling, street crimes, gangs, asset forfeiture, SWAT, and reacting to a critical incident. Since most of Mr. Boyce’s career has been devoted to representing, counseling, and advising police officers, he is able to bring to his presentations a “real life, on-the-street scenario” that street cops immediately understand and appreciate. Peter F. Boyce regularly works with law enforcement agencies to tailor presentations to meet specific training needs. He is available to provide advice, consultation, representation, or referrals to police officers and their employing agencies when they confront the inevitable legal issues that too often frustrate effective policing. For the past five years Peter F. Boyce has had the pleasure of speaking to thousands of street level cops on issues related to buy-busts and the importance of training as an instructor for the DEA in its Basic Narcotic Investigative Schools. He has also spoken to, and on behalf of, the Investigator’s Round table, the ROCIC, the Mid-West Counterdrug Training Center, and police departments and task forces throughout the country. Mr. Boyce is a member of the National Institute of Municipal Officers, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Municipal Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc. He has served as a city attorney for 20 years, a Special Assistant County Attorney for 13 years, and he has represented large metropolitan police departments, as well as small city police departments. Dr. Harv
Dr. Goldstein has most recently focused on work with senior level executives, assisting them in leadership competencies for high performing teams. He has consulting and training relationships with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Citicorp, Time Warner, Florida Power and Light and IBM. Recent past assignments have included motivational seminars for the world champion New York Yankees, The M2 Executive Magazine Forum and The Public Risk Management Association. He maintains ongoing training and consulting relationships with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, the State Department and the NY City Transit Authority. In July, 1987 Special Agent Bachman entered DEA’s volunteer operation, entitled “Operation Snowcap”, a para-military operation in cocaine source countries of
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yce is a lawyer in private practice in the Atlanta area. For much of his career, Peter has counseled and defended police officers, their supervisors, their departments, and the governmental entity which employs them when they are threatened with suit or sued for allegations of wrongful conduct. As a nationally recognized speaker and instructor in many aspects of police civil liability, Mr. Boyce has had the privilege and pleasure of making presentations to local, state, and federal law enforcement officers throughout the country on various liability issues associated with undercover drug enforcement work and a host of other topics directly related to police work.
Dr. Harvey Goldstein
ey Goldstein is a leader in the police psychology realm, founded the Law Enforcement Behavioral Science Association, and the Police Psychology Section of the American Psychological Association. Among his pioneering efforts were attention to the effects of shift work on police personnel and the establishment of a mandatory policy for traumatic incident debriefing, the first in the nation. Dr. Goldstein had served as an expert witness in high profile trials and before Congress on behavioral aspects of crisis management.
Dr. Goldstein has appeared as an expert on numerous network and local television and radio programs discussing behavioral science in the workplace. These include "60 Minutes", CBS Evening News, PBS and National Public Radio, ABC's "Nightline" and most recently an HBO production for Court TV. He has held adjunct teaching and lecture assignments at
Gene Russell Bachman
Mr. Bachman began his twenty-nine year career with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s predecessor agency, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in 1970. During his tenure with DEA, Special Agent Bachman was stationed in Jackson, MS; New Orleans, LO; Mobile, AL; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; and several tours of duty in Washington, DC. One of these tours was as the Chief Instructor in many Tactic-related courses, as he currently holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Go Ju Karate.
regarding “Operation Snowcap”. Special Agent Bachman continued deployments to
Special Agent Bachman ended his career with DEA as the Resident Agent in Charge of DEA’s Knoxville Resident Office, in 1997, and currently owes a working farm, and small motel in Townsend, TN.
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ack Thorndike, Training and Sales Consultant for SIRCHIE® Finger Print Laboratories, Inc. Mr.
Thorndike was an adjunct lecturer and instructor in Narcotic Field Tests with NIK Becton Dickinson (where he worked for 17 years) as well as with ODV, Inc. where he was National Sales Manager for 8 years. He has conducted instruction seminars for the DEA Field Divisions in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington, New Jersey and New Orleans; the CIA in McLean, VA; US Customs & Border Patrol; NCTC of Pennsylvania; and the State Narcotic Conferences in Arizona, North Carolina, Kansas, New Jersey, Indiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, Connecticut and Wisconsin. Jack also designed and conducted Master Instruction for the NY State Police Dept. (OCCB), State of Wisconsin, State of Indiana, Las Vegas Metro Police Dept., San Antonio Police Dept., and the Dallas Police Dept. Jack now continues his training and sales efforts on the behalf of SIRCHIE®
Dr. Harold L. Crossley 
ssley, DDS, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland Dental School. A native of Rhode Island, Dr. Crossley received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island in 1964. He later was awarded Master of Science (1970) and doctoral degrees (1972) in pharmacology. The University of Maryland Dental School in Baltimore awarded Dr. Crossley his DDS in 1980. His role as liaison between the classroom and his dental practice produced a practical approach to understanding the pharmacology of drugs used in the dental office.Dr. Crossley has co-authored a number of articles and four books dealing with a variety of topics within the field of pharmacology. Other areas of expertise include the pharmacology of street drugs and chemical dependency. Dr. Crossley serves on the Maryland State Dental Association’s Well-Being Committee, was a member of the University Interdisciplinary Committee for Drug Abuse Education, and served on the Governor’s Commission on Prescription Drug Abuse. He is an active member of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honorary Dental Society, the American College of Dentists, and International College of Dentists. He has been a consultant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement agencies since 1974. Drawing on this unique background, Dr. Crossley has become nationally and internationally recognized as an expert on street drugs and chemical dependency as well as clinical pharmacology.
Robert Almonte
Robert Al
monte – Deputy Chief (Ret.) El Paso Police Department, was the commander of the narcotics section and implemented the El Paso Police Department’s Hotel/Motel unit and Stash House Unit. Robert has 25 years experience with the El Paso Police Department, including 13 years in narcotics investigations as a Detective, Sergeant, and Commander. Robert holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration. He received national recognition as the 1999 “Outstanding HIDTA Task Force Commander” by The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. He has also provided narcotics training throughout the country for thousands of officers, including at the Texas Narcotic Officers Association, and at the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association's annual conference. His unique insight into the Spiritual World of Mexican Drug
Traffickers is one of the hottest topics in the United States today.
“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.
Dr. Slick has accumulated many years of experience working with criminal justice officials. He has also logged hundreds of hours riding with police officers, while observing first-hand virtually all police interventions -- from traffic control to homicides. Dr. Slick has completed numerous line tours with such diverse groups as the U. S. Border Patrol and the "Chicano Squad" of the Houston Police Department. He has participated in INS raids wher he served as an interpreter. He is the former chief translator for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and has been a consultant to numerous county corectional facilities. Dr. Slick has served as an interpreter and translator for the US Department of Justice in a variety of cases and hearings related to Columbian and Mexican drug trafficking in the US.
Dr. Slick has taught survival Spanish and cross-cultural training at dozens of police academies throughout Texas, Idaho, California, Washington, Missouri, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, and Virginia. In addition, he has provided training for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Customs, and the U.S. Special Forces in counterdrug interdiction. He has developed the materials and curriculum for survival Spanish at the U.S. Regional Counterdrug Training Academy where he serves as lead Spanish instructor. He also teaches regularly for the National Association of Criminal Interdiction Officers.
Dr. Slick is certified as a police instructor in both
Dr. Sam L. Slick is a Professor of Spanish and former Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at the
Samuel Candelaria is a 22-year veteran police officer of the Albuquerque Police Department,
Candelaria, a nationally recognized expert, has instructed nationally and internationally with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Jetway Program and with the International Narcotics Interdiction Association (INIA). He has also instructed throughout the country on consensual encounter techniques and domestic drug interdiction programs. Candelaria was selected the Albuquerque Police Department’s Detective of the year twice; in 1989 and in 2000. He was the recipient of the INIA’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for 2001. The interdiction detail to which Candelaria was assigned was also selected the HIDTA Interdiction Detail of the Year for 2001 by Asa Hutchinson, Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Candelaria is co-author of a book titled, “Drug Interdiction, Partnerships, Legal Principles, and Investigative Methodologies for Law Enforcement”, which was published, December 2002. Candelaria has also written articles for several national police and security publications: Law and Order, Police and Security. Candelaria has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and a Master of Science Degree in the Administration of Justice and Security.
Dr. Everette Doolittle
Some of his major areas of concentration are: management and supervision practices and principles, leadership studies and theories, criminal investigations, and criminal
justice ethics decision making. Prior to taking a position at the University, he was a Senior Special Agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, State of
Minnesota and headed the BCA's Cold Case Homicide Unit. This unit has received great notoriety and has been featured on CBS 48 hours and A&E Cold Case Files.
Over the past thirty years, he has worked as a consultant and instructor to the law enforcement and non-law enforcement communities providing specialized training and consulting in leadership, management/supervision, teambuilding, interviewing/conflict resolutions, cold case homicide investigations, law enforcement ethics, and the ethical leader. Professor Doolittle holds a Masters in Management and Administration, a Doctoral in Public Administration, and a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
Michael Aman
Detective Michael Aman is assigned to the Crimes against Persons/Cold Case unit of the El Paso Police Department. He has also served in the Gang Unit, Dignitary Protection Unit, as well as in the Criminal Investigations and Patrol Divisions. Detective Aman is the published author of "Preventing Terrorist Suicide Attacks". This resource provides essetial information for law enforcement officers on techniques for recognizing potential terrorists and preventing suicide attacks, domestic and international in origin. Before joining the El Paso Police Department, Detective Aman served thirteen years in the German Air Force as an Air Defense Tactical Officer, Operations officer and Instructor Officer. He has an M.B.A. from the German Armed Forces University, Munich, Germany.
Walter Guertin
Walter Guertin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Science from 
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James Eagleson is
a highly trained expert in the field of commercial motor vehicle criminal interdiction. He has worked as a full time interdiction K-9 Officer on the I-95 drug corridor for The South Carolina Department of Public Safety. Before retiring from the South Carolina State Police, he has made over a thousand drug and criminal arrests. He holds several records in South Carolina involving US currency and drug seizures in commercial motor vehicles and passenger vehicles. In 2001, he was named Police Officer of the Year by three different departments. He is also a Certified Instructor through the SC Criminal Justice Academy, as well as an Associate Instructor with EPIC, and Desert Snow. James has the most requested class of the year, Hidden Assets in Commercial Motor Vehicles, used by DEA all across the country. Those attending this class have already seized over a combined total of $2 million, just in 2007 alone! These courses pay for themselves within a few weeks.
Don Howell
Don How
ell has been investigating sexually motivated crimes for over 25 years. He received his B.S. degree from
Rodney Pierce
DEA Task Force Officer Rodney Pierce has been a Monroe (NC) Police Officer for fourteen years before reaching the rank of Captain. For the past two years Rodney has been assigned to the DEA Charlotte Drug Task Force, working major Narcotic Trafficking Investigations, including wire taps, indoor Cannabis Cultivations, and Methamphetamine Clan Labs and Trafficking. For the past nine years Rodney has been an instructor for the
Colin Comer
Colin Comer began his law enforcement career with a B.S. in Criminal Justice Admin. from
Colin then went to Mitchell, S.D. as the Police Chief where his department hosted the regional drug task force and at the time was the largest E-911 dispatch center in the state, serving four counties as well as the city. During this time he continued to provide training to various departments as a consultant. From
Attorney Wiley B. McAfee
Wiley (Sonny) McAfee, has thirty five years of experience in Criminal Justice with 20 years as a police officer, and 17 years as a prosecutor, legal advisor, and legal trainer. Sonny retired from the Houston Police Department as a lieutenant. During his tenure with the Houston Police Department he worked in investigative divisions such as Narcotics, Internal Affairs, and Homicide. Sonny oversaw planning, warrant drafting and execution of search warrants during his career with the Houston Police Department. He graduated from the 129th Session of the FBI National Academy where he studied constitutional law, search and seizure, and other law enforcement management topics. Sonny obtained his law degree from the University of Houston and was licensed as an attorney prior to his retirement from the Houston Police Department. Upon retirement, he practiced law as a briefing attorney for the First Court of Appeals in Texas, and later served as a prosecutor in Harris and Smith Counties in Texas. In his capacity as a prosecutor he assisted in the drafting of search warrants and training officers in search and seizure. He
was also the Legal Advisor for the Irving Police Department where he trained officers in search and
seizure and writing search warrants. In 2000, Sonny worked as a contractor for the Department of Justice training officers in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He developed and implemented the “train the trainer” program for the first Criminal Procedure Code of Bosnia - Herzegovina and ensured the training of 12,000 officers throughout the country in all aspects of criminal procedure including writing search warrants and using informants.
Dr. Steven A. Rhoads
Dr. Ste
ven A. Rhoads has a Ph.D. in Behavior Science from the Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH. He is a recognized leader in the law enforcement community and serves on several committees at the International, State and Local level. He is one of the contributing authors of the rewrite and updating of the Police Code of Ethics and the Value Statement adopted by International Association of Chiefs of Police. Dr. Rhoads has lectured extensively throughout the United States and Internationally and is recognized as an expert in the field of Subconscious Communication and Body Language. He is a certified police instructor in 17 states and has presented his material to agencies in all 50 states, every federal law enforcement agency and students from 67 foreign countries. Dr. Rhoads has served as an expert witness in court proceedings concerning this topic and the subject of physiological testing utilized in Driving Under the Influence cases. Dr. Rhoads has been recognized for solving many major felony crimes in several differing jurisdictions, including Senate Resolutions in the States of Mississippi and Illinois, using his Subconscious Communication® techniques.
Peter Mercado
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Peter was a gang member during his youth but escaped after realizing the “dead end” of gang membership. He launched into a career of education because of his passion to help at-risk students by providing structure, discipline, safety, and belongingness as an antidote to gangs.
During his career, Peter has negotiated truces between and among gangs in Brooklyn that involved gang–turf wars that resulted in injuries and deaths. As an Assistant Principal for Security, Peter was recruited by principals to take on the most challenging settings and restored those schools to safe learning environments.
Peter has received national training in hurricane preparedness, recovery, and mitigation and is certified as a playground safety inspector. He holds a Master’s Degree in Education from CUNY and holds a Certificate in Administration and Supervision. He has been an assistant principal and English teacher for the New York City Department of Education.
Michael W. Sedam
Michael W.Sedam, MPA is employed with a major state law enforcement agency, having served as a patrol officer, investigator, internal affairs review officer, tactical flight officer, pilot, and field supervisor. He currently manages the maintenance program of his department's aviation assets. He was conferred a Master of Public Administration degree with distinction, focusing on leadership, organizational culture, and human resources management; is a member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), California Association of Highway Patrolmen, and the United States Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association; and has earned a Department of Homeland Security Scientific Leadership Award for research completed on intergovernmental cooperation as it relates to homeland security issues. Mr. Sedam has published articles on organizational culture, leadership, and human error.
Mike Clumpner
Mike Clumpner is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Archangel Consulting LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina (USA) based-company. Archangel Consulting specializes in providing homeland security training and consulting, public safety training, disaster response training, tactical medicine training and response, critical care medical education, and healthcare consulting.
Mike is also a full time fire captain/paramedic for the Charlotte Fire Department where he is assigned to the Special Operations Division. Mike is a decorated seventeen-year veteran of the fire service, with fourteen years experience as a firefighter/paramedic serving on busy inner-city fire companies. Mike is a FEMA Medical Task Force Leader assigned to North Carolina Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 3 (NCTF-3) and has worked since 2004 as a flight paramedic with Regional One Air Medical Service in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Mike has been an instructor for the United States Department of Justice since 2005 and has lectured numerous times at the FBI Academy and the DEA Academy, as well as at federal law enforcement field offices throughout the United States. Mike has created multiple training modules that are currently in use by several Justice Department agencies. Mike has also taught for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the White House Chief Medical Staff, and multiple units within the Department of Defense.
Mike has undergraduate degrees in fire science, paramedicine, and business administration, a master's degree in business adminstration and is now working on a doctorate degree in homland security policy. Mike is also associate faculty in the Emergency Health Science Department at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
Mike has been a guest expert on radio and television programs, published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals throughout the world, and co-authored four critical care medicine textbooks. Mike is on the editorial staff with three major publishers to provide expert article review prior to publication. Mike has lectured extensively throughout North America, Latin America, Europ, Australia, New Zealand and the Carribean and has presented at over one hundred and thirty congresses and symposiums.
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