Background
Twenty-Eight (28) years of service with Winnipeg Police Service, Patrol Sergeant (retired)
- Trainer/Consultant/Expert Witness – Protective Strategies
- Critical Incident Analyst/Expert Witness – Winnipeg Police Service
- Street Supervisor – General Patrol – Winnipeg Police Service
- Project Manager of Use-of-force/Officer Safety/Firearms Program – Winnipeg Police Service
- Officer Safety Coordinator – Winnipeg Police Academy
- Co-coordinator of Winnipeg Police Service Crowd Control Unit
- Police Recruit & In-service Instructor – Winnipeg Police Academy
- Assault Team Member, W.P.S. Emergency Response Unit (1987 to 1990)
- Plainclothes Detective – General Investigations – WPS
- Martial Arts/Self-Defense Instructor – Tiger Claw Kung Fu
Force-Related Instructor Certification And Training
- Instructor Trainer:
- PPCT Tactical Baton System
- PPCT Violent Patient Management System
- PPCT Inmate Control System
- PPCT Pressure Point Control Tactics
- PPCT Defensive Tactics
- SHARP (Sexual Harassment Assault Rape Prevention)
- Dynamic Simulation Training
- Licensed Subject Control Instructor Trainer, Algonquin Criminal Justice Institute
- Public Safety Unit Tactical Course (Crowd Control) – Charles O. Bick College
- Firearms / Weapons:
- Glock Firearms Instructors Course & Instructor’s Workshop
- Glock Pistol Armorer’s Course
- Ontario Police College Handgun Retention and O.C. Spray Program
- Def-Tec Aerosol Weapons Instructor
- Persuader Baton Instructor Course
- Scepter Police Baton Course – taught by the inventor Professor Georges Sylvain
- CARS (Center Axis Relock System) Tactical Firearms System
- Northwestern Traffic Institute Law Enforcement Officer Survival & Active Counter Measures Course
- Verbal Judo Seminar
- Northwestern Traffic Institute – Deadly Force and the Police Officer
- Black Sash Instructor -Tiger Claw Gung-Fu System
- First Aid, CPR Instructor – St. Johns Ambulance
- Founder: ToughenUp.com
Education & Training
- Developing and Implementing Effective Workplace Training Courses – University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg Police Academy:
- Aboriginal Awareness Workshop
- Effective Presentation
- Criminal Investigators
- Police Management Level 1
- Basic Emergency Preparedness – Canadian Emergency Preparedness College
- Canadian Police College:
- Systems Approach to Training Design and Delivery
- Instructional Techniques
- Multi-Cultural Educators
- Fitness Leadership
- Winnipeg Police Service Leadership & Transition – Management Training