LEIU/IALEIA Training Conference, Orlando, Florida - 2010
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Angela Whyte began her career in law enforcement in 1998 as a Custom's Officer with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). She has spent seven years as an intelligence analyst—five years with CBSA and the last two as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). As a tactical intelligence analyst she has worked investigations concerning international drug and human trafficking, money laundering, commercial crime, and homicides. As a strategic analyst she was seconded to Criminal Intelligence Service Manitoba (CISM) and to CBSA Headquarters in Ottawa. Analyst Whyte has instructed at the Canadian Police College and co-developed and teaches “Criminal Intelligence Analysis” at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Manitoba where she researched war crimes and international law, and continues to guest lecture on transnational organized crime.
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Detective David Hill has 19 years of law enforcement experience, all with the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. Fifteen of those years, he served as a detective and the last eight he investigated retail crimes exclusively. Detective Hill was instrumental in developing a networking program, in the Maryland/Washington D.C./Virginia area in 2002, where law enforcement officers and loss prevention agents, communicated on a daily bases via email and shared information to try and identify and arrest criminals associated with retail crimes. In 2004, Detective Hill received special deputation by the United States Marshals Service, which authorizes him to work with the United States Secret Service (WFO) in support of its federal task force. In 2006, Detective Hill arrested and convicted Claude Allen (former Domestic Policy Advisor for President Bush) for retail theft. He has been featured in the Washington Post and New York Times and appeared on CNN and Inside Edition. Detective Hill has had cases featured on CNBC and has testified before the United States Congress House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. In 2009, he was the co-recipient of the 2009 National Retail Federation's Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Award for shutting down a "Skimming" organization, where servers at restaurants in Washington D.C. were stealing customers' credit card numbers and the ring leaders were using them to purchase gift cards and electronics for a $1 million loss. He is currently a Regional Director for the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R).
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Dave Cariens was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Ohio State University in German and Polish history and did graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Cariens served in the CIA for 31 years before retiring in 1997. During his career he was a political analyst for 22 years in the Directorate of Intelligence, specializing in Balkan affairs. In this capacity he produced finished intelligence for all levels of the U.S. government, from the President to working level counterparts throughout the Intelligence Community. He headed the training unit teaching all new CIA analysts in the writing and briefing skills needed to produce finished intelligence. Mr. Cariens has designed intelligence analysis/writing courses and taught them throughout the Intelligence Community. He has trained foreign intelligence services in the writing skills needed to produce finished intelligence. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mr. Cariens designed and taught the basic analytic/writing course currently used by one former member of the Warsaw Pact to train its new intelligence analysts. He also served on the CIA’s Inspector General’s staff. Since retiring, Mr. Cariens continues to design and teach intelligence writing and briefing courses throughout the Intelligence Community—including the CIA, the FBI, the Intelligence Community Staff, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, all branches of military intelligence, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the Massachusetts State Police Fusion Center. He has given writing workshops at the IALEIA/LEIU Annual Training Conferences in Alexandria in 2005, in Vancouver, Canada in 2007, in Boston in 2008, and in Las Vegas in 2009. He also presented at the IALEIA Annual Training Conference in Mexico City in 2006 and the LEIU Annual Training Conference in Tempe, Arizona in 2006. Mr. Cariens has conducted intelligence analysis training for the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada, for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and for the Singapore Police Force. He is the author of "A Question of Accountability: The Murder of Angela Dales", an examination of the killing rampage at the Appalachian School of Law on January 16, 2002. For additional details on this book visit Mr. Cariens' website at www.aquestionofaccountability.com. Mr. Cariens is also a contributing author to the LEIU/IALEIA forth-coming publication "Criminal Intelligence for the 21st Century". Mr. Cariens’ text book, "Intelligence and Crime Analysis", is slated for publication in 2011.
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David Toddington is the President and Founder of Toddington International Inc. (TII).> Since 1997, TII has provided advanced, Internet-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) training and support services to a wide range of law enforcement, government and corporate organizations in both North America and Europe. With a background as both a sworn peace officer and a senior manager in the IT industry, Mr. Toddington has lectured extensively on Internet-related investigative matters in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has also developed a number of training programs focused on Internet research and intelligence gathering. In addition to teaching at the West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre, Mr. Toddington and his colleagues also instruct through the Canadian Police College, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre, the Ontario Police College, the British Columbia Police Academy, the Forensic Sciences Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the International Chamber of Commerce - Commercial Crime Section (Europe), Centro Internacional de Inteligencia (Mexico), and the Idaho State Police Academy (United States). Among other awards, Mr. Toddington David has been the recipient of a Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Commanding Officer's Commendation for his work in the development and implementation of new police Open Source Intelligence systems. A frequent speaker at numerous conferences in North America and
Europe, Mr. Toddington has been a regular contributor to a number of law enforcement publications.
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Detective Greg Rodriguez (retired) began his law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1974. In his last assignment, and until his retirement from the LAPD Major Crimes Division in November 2009, Detective Rodriguez, was on long-term loan to the FBI/JTTF where he worked domestic counter-terrorism cases. He is an expert in the area of prison intelligence gathering, specifically cultivating and handling informants inside and outside prison walls. As an undercover officer, for most of his 35-year law enforcement career, he worked notable assignments including R.I.C.O. indictments against the 18th Street gang and the Mexican Mafia, the Hillside Strangler case, and the Dirty Thirty case. He also worked international high-profile fugitive investigations culminating in several arrests.
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Jay "Jaybird" Dobyns is the unconventional, full-bore federal agent who achieved worldwide notoriety as one of America's most daring and
talked-about law enforcement officers. Special Agent Dobyns' introduction to the street was
immediate, vicious and nearly fatal. Within a week in the field he was taken hostage and shot through the back and chest. He quickly returned to work and now, after more than twenty years of undercover assignments Special Agent Dobyns became the first law enforcement officer to fully infiltrate the Hell's Angels outlaw biker gang. Special Agent Dobyns is the New York Times bestselling author of the book "No Angel, My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels" which has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox, and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, The National Geographic Channel, the History Channel and America's Most Wanted.
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Jay Anthony Dobyns is a career lawman best known for his twenty-plus years as an undercover federal agent. Nicknamed "Jaybird” he achieved worldwide notoriety as one of America’s most daring and talked-about law enforcement officers behind operations that targeted the world’s most deadly criminals and their organizations. Agent Dobyns worked undercover to infiltrate street gangs, gun running groups, drug trafficking organizations, prison gangs, home invasion operations and he routinely played the role as a hitman during murder-for-hire investigations. Agent Dobyns became best known for his infiltration of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang. He was the first law enforcement officer in history to get "inside the wire” of the Hells Angels, becoming a patched member of the Skull Valley charter. In 2009, AQgent Dobyns teamed with co-author Nils Johnson-Shelton to release a memoir of his Hells Angels experiences in the book, "No Angel, My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels". The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller and is now published internationally and available worldwide in seven different languages. As a young man, following an over-achieving athletic career as a wide receiver for the University of Arizona Wildcats, Agent Dobyns exchanged his football pads for a badge and gun and became a Special Agent with America’s violent crime police force - the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). His introduction to the street was abrupt, vicious and nearly fatal. During his first week on the job he was taken hostage and shot in the back - the bullet travelling through his lung and exiting his chest. Never to be defeated or deterred, Agent Dobyns quickly returned to undercover work. Feeling energized, or as he puts it, "bulletproofed" by the experience, "Jaybird" actively sought ever more dangerous undercover assignments. He became self-immersed in the violent underworld of criminal gangs. Later, now living his life under death threats and facing the vengeance that comes with twenty years of going toe-to-toe with world’s most dangerous criminals, Agents Dobyns' passion for justice left him broken. During his quest to "handle America’s business” he had alienated himself from his friends and became isolated from his family. A remarkable and inspiring aspect of Agent Dobyn's life story is how and where he found the strength to survive and repair his life. "I wake up every morning with a chip on my shoulder to succeed and with something to prove. In the world of undercover, that’s how it has to be if you want to win…and stay alive.” A defendant recently summarized Jay’s aggressive, no holds barred approach to law enforcement: "It’s not fair…we stand no chance if the police are going to put guys like that on the street against us.” A defense attorney described Jay as: "...a government-trained ‘Predator’ repeatedly sent on seek and destroy missions in search of drugs, guns and violence, with instructions to succeed at any cost and without regard for the agent himself or those he crosses paths with.” Notwithstanding his diverse accomplishments, Agent Dobyns exemplifies humility, describing himself as, "...an ordinary guy presented with extraordinary opportunities to succeed.” As he often says during speaking engagements: "I was shot through the chest and bleeding to death. I was lying on a dirt road with garbage blowing past me in the wind; blood pumping from my chest like a thumb pressed over the end of a garden hose. I had a choice...give up and I would die. Get up and maybe I could win, survive, live another day.” Agent Dobyns is a one-of-a-kind public speaker honestly drawing from his incredible personal and professional experiences to passionately demonstrate how the "real world” obstacles of fear and risk can consistently be conquered through faith and focus.
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Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe is Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, Philadelphia. He served 11 years with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) on patrol duties, in an intelligence and information unit, and as a member of the Diplomatic Protection Group. After a winter mountaineering accident, he left the police and completed both a BSc and a PhD at the University of Nottingham. As a lecturer in policing (intelligence) with Charles Sturt University based at the New South Wales Police College in Australia, he ran graduate programs in criminal intelligence, and, for a number of years, coordinated Australia's National Strategic Intelligence Course. Dr. Ratcliffe was also a senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology, where he conducted one of the first evaluations of an intelligence-led policing operation. He has published over 50 research articles in the areas of spatial analysis, crime reduction, and intelligence-led policing. Dr. Ratcliffe has also published four books: 'GIS and Crime Mapping' (Wiley, 2005), 'Policing Illegal Drug Markets' (Criminal Justice Press, 2005), ‘Intelligence-Led Policing’ (Willan Publishing, 2008) and ‘Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence’ (Federation Press, 2004). The second edition of "Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence" was published in April 2009. A full list of publications can be found at www.jratcliffe.net/jerry-cv.htm. However a possibly more illuminating resume can be found at www.jratcliffe.net/alt-cv.htm. Dr. Ratcliffe was an officer in the British Army reserves (Royal Engineers), has climbed the three highest mountains in Africa, led an expedition down the Selenga river in Siberia, and was the first non-Iban tribesman to successfully navigate (with a traditional carved boat) the rapids of the Temburong river in Borneo.
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Special Constable Jill Ebner, is an Intelligence Analyst with the Vancouver Police Department, Criminal Intelligence Section. She previously worked for the Canada Customs Revenue Agency Pacific Region for 20 years, 8 of those years as an Intelligence Analyst in the Intelligence & Contraband Division. Her duties there included Strategic, Tactical and Operational analysis. Special Constable Paterson accepted a position as an intelligence analyst with the Vancouver Police Department’s newly formed Criminal Intelligence Section in 2001. She conducts tactical analysis for major investigations related to organized crime in British Columbia. Special Constable Paterson also publishes twice yearly threat assessments on organized crime groups operating in British Columbia. These reports are used by management to choose viable targets for enforcement. She is the president of the Western chapter of IALEIA and has been the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Analytic Products by Canada’s national intelligence agency, the Canadian Intelligence Services.
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John Gordnier received his BA degree from the University of Washington in 1966. His JD was earned at the University of Wyoming in 1969. In January 1970 he was sworn in as a member of the California bar. From 1970 until 1972 he worked as a Deputy District Attorney in the County of San Bernardino. In October 1972 Mr. Gordnier became a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Law Division of the California Attorney General's Office. During his time in the Criminal Law Division he tried cases involving public officials, served as the head of the Political Reform Act Enforcement Unit and was in charge of the Attorney General's Legislative/Lobbyist Task Force. When the Special Prosecutions Unit was created to handle organized crime cases in 1979, Mr. Gordnier was one of the attorneys assigned to a team consisting of an attorney and two special agents. In 1983 he was named the Senior Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Special Prosecutions Unit, a position he held until the Unit was disbanded in 1991. During his tenure in the Special Prosecutions Unit, Mr. Gordnier not only prosecuted cases and supervised prosecutions by the unit he also was responsible for the creation and enactment of several laws, including those penalizing money laundering, allowing for asset forfeiture, and permitting prosecution under a state RICO provision. He was also instumental in the development of wiretapping laws in California. From 1991 to 1998 Mr. Gordnier was a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Trials and Special Projects Unit. In this capacity he served as the legislative liaison for the Criminal Law Division, prosecuted certain cases such as the Mark Furman perjury case, implemented the Attorney General's response to the Medical Marijuana initiative, and sucessfully defended California's Assault Weapons Law. From 1998 until his retirement in 2007, Mr. Gordnier was assigned to act as the attorney for the California Department of Justice's intelligence systems, serve as the legal advisor to the CalGANG intelligence system and teach intelligence law for both basic level and executive level courses sponsored by the Attorney General's Advanced Training Center. Since retiring from public service, Mr. Gordnier has acted as a consultant and instructor on intelligence law.
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Special Agent (SA) Joseph Desmarais is currenly assigned to the Criminal Investigative Liaison Branch (CIL), at Diplomatic Security (DS)headquarters, located in Rosslyn, Virginia. SA Desmarais began his career with DS in 2006 and prior to CIL, was posted at the Miami Field
Office. Prior to DS, he gained a wide variety of experience, serving in the U.S. Marines as a DOD contractor and a police officer in North
Richland Hills, Texas. SA Desmarais received his bachelors degree in criminal justice from California State University, Sacramento in 2004. He has traveled to numerous countries with the military and State Department, posted to U.S. Embassies in Cyprus and Sri Lanka, as well as several temporary duties throughout the world.
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Julie Clegg is a former detective with the West Yorkshire Police in the United Kingdom, and brings almost 10 years front-line policing experience to her position as Executive Vice President of Toddington International Inc. She has extensive experience in both undercover and intelligence-led policing operations and a strong background in the technology field. Ms. Clegg is responsible for the provision of proactive and reactive operational Internet support services to a number of Canadian police and federal government agencies. She regularly lectures on Internet investigative matters to various
police and related agencies at both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pacific Region Training Centre and the Justice Institute of British Columbia. In addition to classroom based training, Ms. Clegg has developed and now
oversees a number of distance learning Internet Intelligence courses that are offered through and accredited by the Canadian Police College, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, the Assets
Recovery Agency (UK) and the West Yorkshire Police (UK). To date over 2,200 law enforcement personnel in North America and Europe have
successfully completed these highly regarded distance learning programs.
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Analyst Kathy Lichay has been a Criminal Intelligence Analyst for the Naperville (Illinois) Police Department (NPD) for the past four years. As the only analyst for NPD, she provides investigative assistance and analysis to all areas of her department including patrol, investigations, and special operations. As part of one of the only fully functioning police intelligence units in Illinois, Analyst Lichay has trained numerous analysts and detective personnel from various local departments who are seeking to establish their own intelligence unit. Prior to he employment with NPD, Analyst Lichay was an intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, Chicago office, where she worked narcotics, financial crimes, and immigration investigations. She currently holds the office of Secretary for both the IALEIA "Land of Lincoln" chapter as well as for the Crime Analysts of Illinois.
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Just a few years ago, mafia boss, Michael Franzese was named one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone, by Vanity Fair. At the age of 35, Fortune Magazine listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses”, just 5 behind John Gotti. Avoiding traditional mob domains, Michael masterminded brilliant scams on the edge of the legitimate business world. From auto dealerships and union kickbacks, to financial services and the sports and entertainment industries, to a multi-billion dollar gasoline tax scheme, he earned millions in cash every week at his peak. Not surprisingly, Michael quickly became the target of Manhattan’s famed federal prosecutor, Rudy Guiliani. After promising Michael 100 years behind bars after indicting him on racketeering charges, Rudy only came up empty handed. Escaping four more indictments, it seemed Michael Franzese truly was invincible.
While producing "Knights of the City", a break dance movie filmed in Florida, Michael met a beautiful dancer from Anaheim, California, named Camille Garcia, whose innocent beauty turned his world upside down. After falling in love and eventually marrying Cammy, she convinced Michael to take the rap on racketeering charges. Michael pled guilty, accepted a 10 year prison sentence and vowed to do the unthinkable – walk away from the mob. Nobody of Franzese’s rank had ever just walked away – and lived. Until now.
Michael Franzese is the only high ranking official of a major crime family to ever walk away, without protective custodies, and survive. He is now a man on a mission. Determined to use the compelling experiences of his former life for the benefit of corporate executives, professional and student athletes, at-risk youth, church audiences, and for anyone seeking the inspiration to beat the odds and make positive changes in their lives, he has become a highly regarded motivator and a source of invaluable information. Franzese candidly describes how he survived dozens of grand jury appearances, 5 major racketeering indictments, 5 criminal trials, 7 years in prison and a Mafia death sentence. He tells how he engaged bankers, corporate executives, union officials and professional and student athletes in a wide variety of financial scams. His open and honest presentations are fresh and unique. Audiences are captivated by stories of his personal experiences in organized crime and genuinely affected by his powerful anti-crime messages and eye opening revelations. In his autobiography, "Blood Covenant", Michael reveals answers to many mysteries surrounding his incredible journey. Walk the streets with him to find out how he has done what no one else has managed to do. His newest book, "I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse", was just released by Thomas Nelson, and contains insider business tips from the former mob boss.
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Just a few years ago Vanity Fair Magazine named Mafia boss Michael Franzese one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone. At the age of 35, Fortune Magazine listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses”--just 5 behind John Gotti. Avoiding traditional mob domains, Michael Franzese masterminded brilliant scams on the edge of the legitimate business world. From auto dealerships and union kickbacks, to financial services and the sports and entertainment industries, to a multi-billion dollar gasoline tax scheme, he earned millions in cash every week at his peak. Not surprisingly, Michael Franzese quickly became the target of Manhattan’s famed federal prosecutor, Rudy Guiliani. After promising Franzese 100 years behind bars after indicting him on racketeering charges, Mr. Guiliani only came up empty handed. Escaping four more indictments, it seemed Michael Franzese truly was invincible. While producing Knights of the City, a break dance movie filmed in Florida, Michael Franzese met the woman who would soon be his wife. After they married, she convinced Franzese to take the "rap" on racketeering charges. He pled guilty, accepted a 10 year prison sentence and vowed to do the unthinkable – walk away from the mob. Nobody of Franzese’s rank had ever just walked away--and lived--until now.
Michael Franzese is the only high ranking official of a major crime family to ever walk away, without protective custodies, and survive.
He is now a man on a mission. Determined to use the compelling experiences of his former life for the benefit of corporate executives, professional and student athletes, at-risk youth, church audiences, and for anyone seeking the inspiration to beat the odds and make positive changes in their lives. He has become a highly regarded motivator and a source of invaluable information. Franzese candidly describes how he survived dozens of grand jury appearances, 5 major racketeering indictments, 5 criminal trials, 7 years in prison and a Mafia death sentence. He tells how he engaged bankers, corporate executives, union officials, and professional and student athletes in a wide variety of financial scams. His open and honest presentations are fresh and unique. Audiences are captivated by stories of his personal experiences in organized crime and genuinely affected by his powerful anti-crime messages and eye opening revelations. In his autobiography, "Blood Covenant", Franzese reveals answers to many mysteries surrounding his incredible journey. Walk the streets with him to find out how he has done what no one else has managed to do. His newest book, "I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse", was just released by Thomas Nelson, and contains insider business tips from the former mob boss.
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Lt. Pete Fagan began his law enforcement career in 1982 shortly after graduating from VA Tech with a bachelor of science in sociology. He was a police officer with the Bristol, Virginia Police Department until he was hired by the VA State Police in 1984. In 1987, Lt. Fagan was selected for the Executive Protection Unit, providing protection for the Governor and family. In 1989, he was promoted to special agent in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. His positions included undercover narcotics investigations, marijuana eradication operations, drug task force management, and planning and research. In 1994 Lt. Fagan was promoted to surveillance agent with responsibility of performing all types of electronic surveillance operations. In 1996, as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge, he managed pharmaceutical diversion investigations. From 1997 until 2003, Lt. Fagan managed the Technical Support Unit in the Criminal Intelligence Division; responsible for all electronic surveillance operations and technical support functions for Hostage Barricade Response operations for the VA State Police and in support of other federal, state, and local agencies. During this period he was designated a subject matter expert in telephone intercepts for Virginia courts. Lt. Fagan’s most recent assignment until retirement in 2009 was in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division. He served as the Assistant Division Commander and program manager for the Law Enforcement Activity Management Systems (RMS Project), Firearms Transaction Center, Uniform Crime/Incident Based Reporting, and Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Lt. Fagan was the program manager for the Virginia Missing Children’s Information Clearinghouse; with duties as the VA Amber Alert and Virginia Senior Alert Coordinator. Additionally, Lt. Fagan was the Program Manager for the Virginia Criminal Information Network and acted as the Virginia NCIC/Nlets Information Security Officer. He served as a Subject Matter Expert in electronic surveillance, the FBI N-DEx Project, and areas related to ongoing regional and national information sharing initiatives. Lt. Fagan was part of the consultative process for the N-DEx incremental implementation roll-out. He served as the Chairman of the N-DEx Audit Plan Task Force, appointed as a Subject Matter Expert for the FBI Information Sharing Task Force, FBI Information Sharing, and N-DEx Task Force and was a member of the UCR Subcommittee for the FBI-CJIS Advisory Policy Board process in 2008 and 2009. Lt. Fagan is also part of several Virginia Domestic Violence and Fatality Review Committees within Virginia. He was selected to participate with an Information Sharing Focus Group with IACP and the Department of Homeland Security, Directorate for Science and Technology and; has been selected to participate with the National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology, Technology Policy Council for Intelligence Information Sharing Dissemination to state and local agencies.
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Rafael Brinner serves as a Department of Homeland Security intelligence specialist and lead representative to Northern California's coastal
counties. Before joining the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis in 2009, Mr. Brinner spent seven years overseas leading terrorism analysis efforts in support of U.S. forces in Europe and Africa and five years as the U.S. Coast Guard's senior terrorism analyst for the Pacific Area. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Brinner began developing methodologies for triaging the expanding flow of threat information,
focusing in particular on suspicious activity reporting (SAR). Since 2005, he has advised federal, state and local agencies on best practices for analyzing SAR and has presented his work to law enforcement and intelligence community audiences at national and international
conferences. In 2008, Mr. Brinner received a Distinguished Analysis Award from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in
recognition of his pioneering efforts in this area. Mr. Brinner is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds master's degrees from Northwestern University and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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LEIU Past General Chairman Dick Wright began his law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1965 and worked a variety of uniformed, detective and specialized assignments as an Officer, Sergeant and Lieutenant during 21 years of service. During the last six years, he was assigned as a section leader in the Organized Crime Intelligence Division. In 1986, he joined the Simi Valley Police Department as a Captain and last served as commanding officer of the Department’s Support Services Division. Captain Wright retired from the Department in 2005. He co-authored the California Peace Officers’ Association’s publication, "Criminal Intelligence Program for the Smaller Agency" and several other criminal intelligence articles. He also was a co-editor and contributing author of the LEIU/IALEIA joint publication--"Intelligence 2000: Revising the Basic Elements". Captain Wright is currently the Managing Editor and contributing author to a new LEIU/IALEIA publication "Intelligence for the 21st Century" (to be published in 2010). Captain Wright taught criminal intelligence classes for The California Department of Justice and served on the California Attorney General’s Organized Crime Advisory Committee. Prior to assuming the duties as the LEIU Past General Chairman, Captain Wright served two terms as its General Chairman--starting in May 2001. Before becoming General Chairman, he served on the Executive Board for 10 years as Southwestern Vice Zone Chairman, Zone Chairman and LEIU’s Vice General Chairman.
Captain Wright is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy and holds a bachelor’s degree in public management and a master’s degree in public communication from Pepperdine University.
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Rick Morton is currently a Supervising Investigator with the Orange County (CA) District Attorney's Office. He began his law enforcement career in 1968 with the Los Angeles Police Department. He retired from L.A.P.D. in 1994 as the Newton Street Detective Division Commanding Officer. During his career with L.A.P.D., Supervising Investigator Morton worked in patrol, gangs, homicide and special investigations--including vice and intelligence--as a police officer, sergeant, and lieutenant. During that time he worked six years in undercover assignments. In 1984 Supervising Investigator Morton was also assigned to the UCLA Olympic Village as the watch commander after spending 21 days in Europe undergoing anti-terrorism training. Supervising Investigator Morton began his career with the Orange County DA's Office in 1994 after retiring from L.A.P.D. He has worked for the Intelligence-Organized Crime Unit since 1996 and has supervised the unit since 2001. Supervising Investigator Morton's expertise is traditional organized crime-La Cosa Nostra. Supervising Investigator Morton is currently the LEIU Southwest Zone Chairman and the President of the Western Regional Organized Crime Association, whose focus is traditional organized crime. Supervising Investigator Morton has spoken at several Southern California colleges where he discussed organized crime and gambling with college athletes.
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Sandy Wilson has been an intelligence analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for the past seven years conducting both strategic and tactical intelligence analysis. Her work experience is diverse and includes regional, national, and international investigations on street gangs, drugs, weapons, homicides, migrant smuggling, extremist groups, and terrorism. Analyst Wilson has worked extensively in integrated units and is committed to advancing the field of intelligence analysis. She has co-designed and taught advanced intelligence analysis workshops regionally and nationally to multiple police agencies at the Canadian Police College. She lectures on the use of open source information for intelligence, investigation, and court purposes at events such as the Western Canada Street Gang Conference. Analyst Wilson provides training workshops on “Ethics in Intelligence Analysis” and “Intelligence-Led Policing” to agencies such as the RCMP and Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada. She also co-developed and teaches an advanced Honours-level university course on “Criminal Intelligence Analysis” for the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Analyst Wilson holds a masters degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia where she studied sexual homicide.
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Sara Arabian is a three year veteran of the Criminal Investigative Liaison Branch at the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. She acts as both an analyst and central point-of-contact in efforts made by outside agencies to engage Diplomatic Security elements
overseas.
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Susan Constantine is a body language expert, professional speaker, and trainer. Additionally, Ms. Constantine is Supreme Court County Mediator, and former jury consultant with more than six years experience as a researcher and trainer in verbal and non-verbal communication. She often works with and trains attorney investigators, judges, law enforcement personnel, social workers, physician psychologists and business professionals in how to read and interpret facial gestures that reveal the true emotion behind them and deception detection. Ms. Constantine is a core trainer for Analytic Interviewing and is certified to teach and facilitate all aspects of Analytic Interviewing including deception detection, communication, cognitive interviewing, reading facial expressions of emotions and body language. She provides her expertise in "reading" people in high profile cases in Central Florida for several television channels and appears as a regular expert on the Casey Anthony (child homicide) case. Ms.Constantine has been involved in training courses for corporations, law firms, medical, banking institutions, organizations, and small businesses including: “Lie to Me”, “Bodies Don’t Lie”, “The Four Secret Languages of Communication”, “Deception Detection”, and “Instant Rapport”. Ms Constantine is the President of Silent Messages LLC; is a certified trainer for Analytic Interviewing; is certified in advance training in the Reid technique for interviewing and interrogations; is a Supreme Court county mediator; and is certified in cognitive interviewing. Ms. Constantine is a renowned speaker on understanding and predicting human behavior and is a body language expert who has served as a source for reporters during high profile cases. She is an approved trainer to facilitate facial expressions of emotions developed by Dr. Paul Ekman. Ms. Constantine has trained hundreds of law enforcement officers, investigators, judges, social workers and attorneys in how to read and interpret facial expressions allowing them to know what potential jurors, witnesses, and even criminals are subconsciously thinking and feeling.
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Thomas Manson is the owner of Police Technical, Inc. He speaks 50 weeks a year at national and international public safety conferences including: IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police), CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies), ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) and others. Mr. Manson taught at, and received degrees from: Wichita State University (Master of Arts, 1996) and Indiana State University (Bachelor of Science, 1993). He began his law enforcement career with the United States Border Patrol in South Texas.
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Thomas J. Colbert is the founder and CEO of the consulting firm, CommStatim. He is a senior executive with 18 years in crisis-management instruction for law enforcement and the military, along with 29 years of management and editorial experience in the national news business. In 2004, Mr. Colbert teamed up in business with the FBI’s top cyber-operative in counterterrorism, Judge Shannen L. Rossmiller (ret.). With her self-taught Arabic and dozens of undercover characters to engage Muslim extremists online, the renowned asset has been credited with 214 cases of actionable intelligence and global sting-captures since 9/11. In 2007, Mr. Colbert leveraged the judge’s proven online methodologies and technologies into the national security company, Advanced Cyber-CounterIntelligence Operations, Inc. (AC-CIO). He served as CEO for two years. Formerly, Mr. Colbert served as a rotating crisis-management trainer at various police, fire and military academies – including 18 years at the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI), the State Office of Emergency Service’s renowned disaster preparedness school at Camp San Luis. Thousands of professionals from around the world attended his presentations covering media, terrorism, disinformation, natural disasters, and hazardous materials training (from 1983 to 2001).
Since the 1930’s, radio and TV networks have routinely taken headline stories from small-town papers and stations without credit or compensation to the local reporters that broke them. Mr. Colbert felt this practice wasn’t ethical, so in 1992 he launched Industry R & D, Inc. (IRD) – a news research company and middleman “pipeline” that takes the best breaking tips from regional journalists to buyers in the national media. Since then, the IRD staff has developed and email-forwarded more than 17,000 local story tips to TV editors, publishers and producers in New York and Hollywood – without one civil suit or complaint for accuracy. Over two dozen reporter tips have become books, with a like number reaching the big and small screens – such as Baby Brokers, starring Cybill Shepherd (a surrogate fraud case involving the LAPD and U.S. Attorney); and The Princess & Marine (A love story with The Marine Corps, consulting). In 2009, Mr. Colbert stepped down from his 17-year CEO position and sold IRD. Mr. Colbert began his professional career in 1980 with a journalism internship at the CBS news division’s flagship station in Los Angeles--KCBS. Hired during college, he worked his way up to Senior Research-Reporter. Dozens of story exclusives garnished his station team regional Emmys and Golden Mike awards, especially during major emergency coverage. In 1989, Mr. Colbert was recruited by Paramount Studios to become Research Director for a syndicated TV news magazine show. Two years later, he departed to take the position of Managing Editor for two reality programs featuring recreations of dramatic police & fire incidents. Mr. Colbert is a graduate of the award-winning Journalism Department at Cal State University, Northridge.
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Tom Oberweiser is the Eastern District Supervisor for the Montana Department of Justice Gambling Control Division, Gambling Investigation Bureau (GIB), having served in that capacity since 1994.
He has been a sworn law enforcement officer for twenty-eight years and a criminal gambling investigator for 21 years. Supervisor Oberweiser received his advanced law enforcement certification through the Montana Law Enforcement Academy and is certified through the Montana POST as an instructor in the areas of gambling and tobacco investigations and police ethics with an emphasis on organized sports bookmaking. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (2000). He has successfully investigated large scale organized illegal gambling enterprises which resulted in convictions and large monetary forfeitures. Supervisor Oberweiser sits on the Advisory Council of the Montana State University (Billings)Criminal Justice Degree Program; the Board of the Montana Council on Problem Gambling and is a guest instructor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings--teaching a football officiating class. He has been a football official for over 25 years, the last 10 doing college and professional indoor football games. In 1998 Supervisor Oberweiser was awarded the Montana Governor’s Award for Excellence and was selected Montana Department of Justice Employee of the Year. He has spoken on the topic of organized sports bookmaking around the country and has provided training to many law enforcement agencies and professional organizations, including the North American Gambling Regulators Association (Washington, D.C. 2009) and the Midwest Gambling Investigators & Regulators Association (March, 2007).
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Mr. Godsey received his BA degree in Business and Political Science in 1984 from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. In 1986 he graduated from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy and for the next 4 years he worked as a police officer in Southeast Tennessee. In 1990, Mr. Godsey went to work at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in the special prosecution unit. He left the Attorney General’s Office in 1995 as the Chief Criminal Investigator and assumed the role of Violent Crime Support Unit Supervisor at the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP). In 1998, the MSHP combined the Violent Crime Support Unit and the Criminal Intelligence/Crime Analysis Unit and Mr. Godsey was promoted to supervisor of both units. Over the next 7 years, Mr. Godsey supervised the Criminal Intelligence/Crime Analysis Unit and became involved in several information and intelligence sharing initiatives. Some of these efforts include the Missouri Statewide Police Intelligence Network (MoSPIN), the Midwest HIDTA, the National Virtual Pointer System (NVPS), and many others. Mr. Godsey is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), International Association of Crime Analyst (IACA) and the Vice General Chairman of the Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIU). In December 2005, Mr. Godsey was appointed as Director of the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), the State of Missouri’s designated Fusion Center. In April of 2009, Mr. Godsey assumed his current position as Assistant Director to the Division of Drug and Crime Control. Mr. Godsey has been involved as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on numerous initiatives for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice and served as the Central Region Vice Chair for the Homeland Security-State and Local Intelligence Community (HS-SLIC).
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Vanessa Chopyk has been a Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for nine years. She is currently posted in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Analyst Chopyk has worked on numerous provincial, national, and international drug trafficking investigations as well as investigations concerning money laundering, proceeds of crime, homicides, weapons trafficking, police corruption, and national security. She lectures regionally and nationally to both analysts and investigators. Analyst Chopyk has instructed on the Strategic Intelligence Analysis Course and the Advanced Analytical Techniques Workshop at the Canadian Police College. She has also instructed at the joint Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada/RCMP Criminal Intelligence course. Analyst Chopyk is a faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg where she co-teaches Criminal Intelligence Analysis. She was presented with the RCMP Award of Distinction in 2009 for dedication and expertise in intelligence analysis. She was also the co-recipient of an Award of Honor from the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association in 2005 for her work on Project Diversion/Operation Brain Drain, an international joint forces operation between the RCMP and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Analyst Chopyk has a masters degree in sociology from the University of Manitoba.
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