LEIU/IALEIA Training Conference, Orlando, Florida - 2010
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LEIU Vice General Chairman
Van Godsey
Assistant Director, Division of Drug and Crime Control
LEIU Vice General Chairman (VGC) 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, VGC 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 VGC 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. Besides his leadership role in LEIU, VGC Godsey is also a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and the International Association of Crime Analyst (IACA). In December 2005, VGC Godsey was appointed as Director of the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), the State of Missouri’s designated Fusion Center. In April of 2009, he assumed his current position as Assistant Director to the Division of Drug and Crime Control. VGC 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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