Instructors

Aaron Slater started his career in 1998 and has held positions as an FTO, Detective, Undercover Narcotics, Sergeant, and Lieutenant. He has earned a B.S. in Organizational Leadership, a M.S. in Criminal Justice Leadership and Management, and is a graduate of LEMIT Leadership Command College. Aaron was a Lieutenant and division commander for the Rosenberg Police Department in Texas, with an array of police experience and education. Specifically, he was a pioneer in the use of social media strategies for law enforcement, as he was the creator of the Rosenberg Police Department’s Facebook page, which became the fifth most followed municipal police agency page in the nation. He is most well-known for his innovative and progressive philosophies, taking police agencies toward the future of policing. Aaron Slater’s work in social media has reached and been featured in many national news outlets such as: People Magazine, Fox and Friends, Huffington Post, PoliceOne, Queen Latifah, Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and many more. He has been awarded for his use in social media for law enforcement. Since leaving law enforcement full-time, he has taught hundreds of agencies and thousands of officers in the strategies of successful community policing and creating a social media program. His experience and strategies using social media has expanded, as he is the owner and founder of ReLEntless Defender Apparel, the largest online LEO themed apparel company in the nation. He has designed this course to be a turnkey social media program for any size agency. 

Adam Chacón is a 26-year veteran in law enforcement. Being a native Spanish Speaker has enabled him to be an incredible asset to his department and his brothers in blue. Adam had served 12 years as a Patrol Supervisor, 10 years as a Field Training Officer and 22 years as Adjunct Faculty Member at Police Training Institute (PTI) at the University of Illinois. He was the only bilingual hostage negotiator for the Champaign County METRO/SWAT.

Adam has worked with multiple state, county and municipal Illinois agencies, the FBI, DEA and U.S. Marshall's Service on cases involving Spanish language as well as investigated a full range of incidents at patrol level.

He has served as investigator/interpreter on homicides, attempted homicides, drug interdictions, sexual assaults, child sex assault, as well as other major cases and critical incidents. Adam began with Partners in Training Consultants (PITC) as a Spanish Instructor and has been certified since 2000. Over the last 16 years he has taught over 2,800 hours of PITC courses. He continued to work with Jose Alentado & PITC to develop multi-media training materials, manuals and resources to support the curriculums and methodology.

Adam developed and has taught Police Spanish Training based on the PITC methodologies for the Illinois Police Training Institute (PTI) since 2001

Allen Ashby is a Lieutenant with the Idaho State Police and is currently assigned to the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, District 1 Office. Lt. Ashby has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice; he started his career in law enforcement in 2000 and has worked various assignments in his law enforcement career. Lt. Ashby currently manages the Patrol Division out of the ISP District 1 Office.

Lt. Ashby is an accredited Crash Reconstructionist through the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR). Within the ISP, Lt. Ashby has worked extensively on the Crash Reconstruction Unit (CRU). He investigates and reconstructs serious injury and fatality collisions that occur in Idaho and works with Idaho’s Region 1 Critical Incident Task Force assisting in processing, interpreting, measuring, and diagramming nearly all major crime scene investigations in northern Idaho. Lt. Ashby is qualified as an expert witness in various collision reconstruction subjects and has testified throughout Idaho on various crash-related topics.

Lt. Ashby has also served as ISP’s Crash Reconstruction Program Coordinator and, as such, approved all ISP Crash Reconstruction Reports while also coordinating ISP’s training and equipment for ISP’s Collision Reconstruction Program. Lt. Ashby is also a certified Idaho P.O.S.T. instructor for various crash-related disciplines and instructs Basic Collision Investigation through Advanced/Reconstruction topics for ISP, allied Idaho agencies, Idaho P.O.S.T., and the North Idaho College.

Dr. Andy Young is a retired Professor of Psychology and Counseling after 26 years from Lubbock Christian University where he started 1996, and has been a negotiator and psychological consultant with the Lubbock Police Department’s SWAT/Negotiator team since 2000. He has been on the negotiating team at the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008 and is on the team at the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas Rangers, Special Operations, Region 5). He is the author of, "Fight or Flight: Negotiating Crisis on the Frontline" and "When Every Word Counts: An Insider’s View of Crisis Negotiations." He was recently added as a third author for the 6th Edition of "Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections”. He has spoken internationally at law enforcement and hostage negotiator conferences since 2014 and has had his research and writings on negotiations widely published.

Cpl. Angela Weekes began her career with the Nampa Police Department in 1994. She has served the City of Nampa in several difference capacities including:  Patrol, School Resource Officer, DARE officer, and Child Abuse investigator. Her last assignment was as a Corporal in the Crimes against Person’s Unit in the investigation’s division. She retired in August 2020.

Angela served as a member of the Canyon County Multidisciplinary Team of Child Abuse, the Canyon County SART and the Canyon County Child Death Review team. 

Angela is a certified FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) instructor in Domestic Violence. She is certified by Idaho POST (Peace Officer’s Standards and Training) academy in the area of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault as well as for the Idaho Coalition on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. She also has instructed at the International Family Justice Center Conference. She also serves as faculty with the International Chiefs of Police Association. 

Angela is the visionary component of the Nampa Family Justice Center. Nampa was recently recognized for their efforts in this field by their selection as a model site to develop Family Justice Centers. They are one of fifteen sites selected across the nation. She currently serves on their management team and is their foundation board president.

She has also led the Nampa Police Departments participation in the International Association of Chiefs of Police Integrity, Action and Justice:  Strengthening Law Enforcement Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence Demonstration Initiative. They are one of six law enforcement agencies across the county to take part in the initiative. 

In 2022 Angela contracted with the Department of Justice as a subject matter expert in Domestic Violence during their civil rights investigation into the Louisville Police Department. She was also selected by the Chicago Police Department and the National Police Institute to train the trainers for the Chicago Police Department in Gender Bias Crimes Investigations.

She has received the Idaho Council on Domestic Violence’s Law Enforcement Silver Star Award, the God and Country Rally’s Outstanding Public Service Award, the Nampa Valley Grange and State of Idaho Grange Outstanding Service as a Victim’s Rights Advocate as well as the Idaho Press Tribune’s IPT 103 club award recognizing individuals making contributions to their community. She also received the Idaho Victim Witness Association 2012 Victims Services Award. In 2014 she received the Outstanding Service to Victims of Family Violence Award from the Nampa Family Justice Center.

Angela is married to Jeremy and has two children, McKaylee and Dakota.

Dr. Anita Seamans earned her doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Our Lady of the Lake University. Anita also attended the 244^thsession of the F.B.I. National Academy. Anita has 39 years of experience as a law enforcement officer/detective.

Anita has been a licensed instructor with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education for 32 years and currently teaches basic and advanced peace officer training at the Alamo Area Council of Governments Law Enforcement Academy. Anita also provides expert testimony for the Kendal County District Attorney’s Office in trials involving offenses against children. Anita is also a national instructor and teaches advanced courses including child abuse and child death investigations and the investigation of suicide, across the United States. 

Billy Mitchell is a team leader on the Lubbock Police Department Hostage Negotiator Team. He has been a hostage negotiator since 2012. Since then he has successfully negotiated several incidents involving persons in crisis, suicidal subjects, and felony apprehensions. He is currently an on-call team leader responsible for command level decision making during callouts. Billy has been a member of TAHN with 500 hours of training experience and has competed in multiple national negotiator competitions. Billy’s specialties with the field are neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), veteran interactions, and kidnap and ransom protocol.

Billy is also the lead human trafficking detective for the Lubbock Police Department Special Operations Unit. He has been in this assignment since 2015 where he has investigated, rescued, and apprehended several people involved in human trafficking, organized crime, and other related criminal enterprises.

Billy began his law enforcement career in 2007 with the Houston Police Department before moving to Lubbock Texas. Prior to law enforcement he was involved in nuclear weapon recapture/recovery security.

Billy honorably served in the United States Marine Corps raising to the rank of Sergeant 

Instructor Sgt. Bob Shaffer has been a police officer and sergeant for the Loveland Police Department in Loveland, Colorado since 1986. Sgt. Shaffer has completed over 200 hours of basic, advanced, and advanced mentoring instruction in modern statement analysis techniques. He has been providing quality classroom training in statement analysis since 1997 throughout the U.S., Canada, the Asian Pacific, the Middle East and Mexico His LSAT skills are often solicited by law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. in the course of their criminal investigations. Bob earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1981. He spent six years teaching at the high school and junior college levels in addition to instructing law enforcement related topics extensively in local Colorado police academy programs and been featured as a guest speaker and numerous professional investigation conventions in the United States. He is a member of the teaching staff of P.A.T.C., (the Public Agency Training Council), the Ohio Police Officer Training Academy in London OH, and is a member of the National Association of Investigative Specialists.

Brandon Pierpoint is a retired Sergeant with the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office and served his community for over twenty years. Brandon attended Baylor University and South Plains College, where he received an associate degree in law enforcement Technology.

Since the start of his career in law enforcement Brandon has served in various capacities, such as the jail division, court division and the patrol division. Within the jail division, Brandon was a member of the Detention Response Team, and support services. Brandon served in courtroom security for high profile trials and was soon transferred to the patrol division.  Brandon would then be promoted to the criminal investigations division where he spent the last half of his career.

Brandon became involved in hostage negotiations in 2003 and was the Team Leader of the SWAT Negotiations Team. In 2002 Brandon was honored with the Lifesaving Award for preventing an in-custody suicide attempt.

Brandon is a TCOLE instructor, Mental Health Peace Officer, Firearms Instructor, and holds a Master Peace Officer Certificate. In 2007, Brandon was appointed as the new region six director of training and was elected as President of the Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators in 2015.  Brandon served as an advisor on the board of directors until 2021.

Brandon has had the honor of presenting at multiple conferences including the Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators, California Association of Hostage Negotiators, Western States Hostage Negotiators Association, National Tactical Officers Association, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Brian J. Jarvis is a police professional with over thirty years of experience in law enforcement and investigations who retired in 2008 at the rank of Chief of Police. Chief Jarvis began his law enforcement career in 1978 with the Town of Newburgh (NY) Police Department. Shortly after graduating from the Rockland County Police Academy, he was assigned to the Patrol Division. Chief Jarvis later relocated to the State of Florida and became a sworn deputy with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office in Ocala, FL.

While in Marion County, Chief Jarvis served as a Patrol Deputy, Criminal Investigator, Sergeant, and Major Crimes Supervisor. During his time working in Major Crimes, Chief Jarvis was responsible for the investigation and supervision of Major Crime Scenes which include, but are not limited to homicides, sexual assaults, kidnappings, armed robberies, bank robberies, home invasions, car jackings, aircraft crashes, train / pedestrian fatalities, suicides, child abuse and neglect, and officer involved shootings involving death.

In addition to major crimes, Chief Jarvis has been assigned to investigative units that were responsible for the investigation of property crimes, such as auto thefts, larcenies and burglaries, and white-collar crimes, including forgery, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, and extortion.

Chief Jarvis returned to the State of New York and assumed the position of Chief of Police for the Town of Chester, NY until his retirement in 2008.

Chief Jarvis is a published author and currently instructs on a national level for the Public Agency Training Council (PATC). He is also a subject matter expert for TV true crime documentaries and has been involved in several dozen documentaries, most recently in the Netflix show “Catching Killers: Man Hunter (S1:E2)” and A&E’s “First Blood”. He has also participated recently in several true crime podcasts.

Chief Jarvis holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix and attended the Associates of Arts program in Criminal Justice at Central Florida Community College. He has also attended several courses on Major Crime Investigations, including Practical Homicide Investigation and Sex Crime Investigations offered by the University of North Florida, and Basic and Advanced Computer Crime Investigations offered by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Organized Crime Institute.

Chief Jarvis has also been a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), New York State Police Juvenile Officer’s Association, Mid-Hudson Crime Prevention Association, NYS Association of Chiefs of Police, Past President of the Police Chiefs’ Association of Orange County, and a founding member of the Orange County Law Enforcement Training Institute. He has also been a member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA).