Mr. Berry’s background includes numerous instructor accreditations from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. He holds instructor/trainer certification from the Peace Officers Training Academy (POTA) in London, Ohio, which is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and is acclaimed as one of the best law enforcement training institutions in the nation. Mr. Berry is also certified as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), now a division of the Department of Homeland Security, in Glynco, Georgia. FLETC specializes in providing expert training and technology-based learning, including simulation and modeling, to enhance existing training delivery systems and methodologies.

Mr. Berry has been a supervisor at POTA and continues to provide instruction in advanced defensive unarmed tactics, batons, defensive driving, Ohio liquor laws, vice drug identification, and in undercover operations. He has trained over 5,000 state, county and local officers for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Berry is also a former senior instructor and trainer at FLETC and periodically provides course development and instruction in unarmed defensive tactics, close quarter combat, extendable baton, PR-24 baton, handcuffing, vehicle stops and extractions, crime scene investigations, fingerprint classifications, safety and survival, drug identification, sequential drug testing, and undercover operations. Mr. Berry has trained more than 8,000 federal law enforcement officers attending the agency. In collaboration with other TAG experts, Mr. Berry designs courses in executive protection and undercover operations.

As a specialized law enforcement instructor, Mr. Berry custom-tailors courses and services to cater to individual client needs, inclusive of executive and high-profile personal protection services. His services incorporate industry standards of personal safety presented in a number of scenarios, as well as implement techniques and methodologies to ensure personal safety and protection. Noteworthy among his courses is the “Street Simulation Tactics” course which was developed to address individual safety of auditors employed by the Office of the Inspector General for Audit in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since the origination of the course, Street Simulation Tactics has been tailored to accommodate the ever evolving civilian/corporate population. Mr. Berry’s clients currently include companies in real estate, sporting events, celebrity/high-profile protective services, and others who need crowd control for large populations.

Mr. Berry’s extensive experience and field expertise ensures that clients benefit from a high level of professionally designed and carefully implemented intelligence measures that enhance an environment of protection and precaution from hostile acts or influences.

• Executive Protection Instructor/Trainer (certified by various agencies, including State of Ohio, U.S. Secret Service, FBI, U.S. Marshals, and Tactical Awareness Group Inc. – Columbus, Ohio)
• Tactical Entry Operations Instructor/Trainer (certified by U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration – Quantico, Virginia)
• Extendable Baton and PR-24 standard and extendable baton Instructor/Trainer (certified by Monadnock Lifetime Products – Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire)
• Simunition Supervisor/Trainer (certified by Simunition – Avon, Connecticut)
• Close Quarter Combat Instructor/Trainer (certified by Metropolitan Police Self Defense Institute – Chicago Heights, Illinois)
• Oleoresin Capsicum Aerosol Spray Instructor/Trainer (certified by Law Enforcement Concepts Inc. – San Diego, California and Dayton, Ohio)
• Tactical Simulation Instructor/Trainer (certified by Tactical Awareness Group, Inc. –Columbus, Ohio)
• 7th Degree Black Belt in Shorin-Ruy Karate
• 2nd Degree Black Belt in Ha kyu-Ryu JuJitsu
• 1st Degree Black Belt in Kodokan Judo

Anita F. Dickens is a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation Supervisory Special Agent with over 26 years of law enforcement experience. Ms. Dickens began her career in 1984, correlating crime statistics for the Bureau's Uniform Crime Reports, a yearly compilation of crime statistics for the United States. In 1986, Ms. Dickens earned a promotion to the position of Surveillance Specialist, serving the Washington DC office of the FBI. In 1989, she became an FBI Agent assigned to the Chicago office. Ms. Dickens has a diverse investigative background, having worked a number of federal violations, to include bank robbery, crowd management, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and white-collar crime. Ms. Dickens was assigned to the New Orleans Field Office in 1995. During her time there, in addition to her primary responsibilities as the Regional Applicant Recruiter, she also assisted the Events Coordinator with event management and crowd control at the New Orleans Superdome. She was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and transfer to FBI Headquarters, Washington DC, in 1998.

During her time at FBIHQ, Ms. Dickens worked as Program Manager of the "Key Assets" Program. This program assisted law enforcement nationwide in identifying and protecting critical public infrastructures such as water and power. Upon her transfer to the Inspection Division as an Assistant Inspector, she conducted internal compliance audits of FBI programs in field offices across the country. As the Career Officer for the FBI's Security Division, Ms. Dickens significantly advanced the FBI’s Security Officer Program, rewriting the job description, personally assessing applicants and creating the Security Officer’s Advisory Committee. Promoted to Unit Chief of the newly formed Continuing Education and Professional Development Unit, Ms. Dickens was responsible for creating and implementing development opportunities for the FBI Counterterrorism Program, both across the United States and in collaboration with its foreign allies.

In 2007, Ms. Dickens transferred to the Houston Field Office, where she served as the Counterterrorism Program Coordinator and as an Intelligence Squad Supervisor until her retirement in 2011. Ms. Dickens is a graduate of North Carolina State University and the Kellogg School of Business “Navigating Strategic Change” Certificate Program. She is FBI certified in personnel security and suitability adjudication.

All sessions are confidential. More information regarding Dr. Ayo Maria Gooden may be found on her Web site at www.doctorayo.com

Ben C. Long, a former U.S. Park Police SWAT Counter Sniper/Firearms Instructor, and is currently a federal agent. Protective Services is the unit responsible for the safety and protection of the Office of The Secretary/Deputy Secretary of HUD and any other dignitaries as assigned by the White House. With a specialty in crowd management.

Prior to becoming the Director of PSD, Mr. Long served 16 years as a Officer, and Sergeant, for the "Oldest Uniformed Federal Police Department" in the country, The U.S. Park Police, Washington DC.

Mr. Long initiated his law enforcement career in 1987 after serving four (4) years with the United States Marine Corps (Military Police). A graduated of the FLETC 21 week basic and advance school, Mr. Long embarked on a busy yet rewarding career with USPP. He started out as a patrol office in Southeast Washington, DC (Anacostia Station). At the Anacostia Station, Mr. Long was 1989 Officer of the year, a direct result from accumulating over 140 arrest in the year, recovering a total of 1.5 million dollars worth of stolen vehicles, and after being involved in a critical incident that resulted in the life of one wanted suspect who attempted to take Mr. Long's life in a high speed vehicle pursuit after several shots were fired.

Mr. Long was selected to join the USPP elite SWAT team in 1990. On the SWAT team, Mr. Long was country's first Counter Sniper trained to do was is now know as "medical remote assessment across the barricade", a procedure used to advise the teams command element the medical condition of the hostage in a barricade or other hostile environments through the spotter or his own rifle scope.

Mr. Long is also a Counter Narcotics Tactical Operations Medical Support (CONTOMS) trained EMT-Tactical Medic and Faculty Instructor for the Casualty Care Research Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Mr. Long is a graduated of the FBI Basic and Advanced Sniper Schools, at Quantico, VA., the Baltimore County Police Sniper School, and the USMC Scout Sniper Instructor School, also in Quantico, VA. He and his Spotter were the first "northern team" to compete in the now famous "Sniper Craft" sniper competition in Florida, and now California. The unit placed a respectable 5th place in the taxing competition that is represented by teams from the Navy Seals, Army Green Berets, to police teams from LAPD SWAT and Miami-Dade SWAT.

Mr. Long is married and has three children, ages ranging from 15-25. An avid home audio enthusiast, Mr. Long spends his off time "tweaking" his two home theaters.

In January 2000, he became the Program Manager of the NASA OIG Firearms and Defensive Tactics Program and in 2002 was named the Program Manager for Undercover Operations. Mr. Catanzarito expertise is in the white collar fraud area and he has extensive experience in working and managing undercover operations.

Mr. Catanzarito also served as a member of the NASA OIG computer crimes squad and he has very successful in criminal investigations involving computer hacking and child pornography cases. Mr. Catanzarito has handled internal investigations for the NASA OIG and has authored articles for the General Accounting Office (GAO) on criminal investigator standards and handbooks.

Mr. Catanzarito was instrumental in the development of the Undercover Operations curriculum for the Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy at FLETC and he is a guest lecturer for this course. Mr. Catanzarito holds a B.A. Degree in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in May 1982; is a Graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Criminal Investigator Training Program in July 1991, and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy in November 1980. Mr. Catanzarito is a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officer's Association (FLEOA) and is Chapter 19 Treasurer.

Mr. Cupp received his Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement from Eastern Kentucky University, and a Master of Science in Justice Administration from the University of Louisville.

He is a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and American Society of Industrial Security.

Michael has an Associates degree in Biology; a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology; and a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

He is currently a member of:

• International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association
• American Society for Law Enforcement Training
• Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association
• Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association

Captain Smith formed, trained and commanded the first Special Operations Unit which started in 1995 a position which he still holds, which also is utilized to assist other Agencies in the surrounding metropolitan area of Chicago. This unit also assisted local, state and federal agencies in street gang and Narcotic suppression. He has trained approximately 6000 personnel in all levels of law enforcement on topics such as Tactical Team Operations, Defensive Tactics, Firearms and Officer Survival. He also served as a guest instructor at the Ohio Peace Officers Academy, Cook County Sheriff's Academy and several annual law enforcement training conferences.

Captain Smith has published approximately 45 articles on police training related that has appeared in publications such as SWAT, Combat Handguns, Gun & Weapons for Law Enforcement, Police Times and American Police Beat magazines.

Captain Smith has earned an Associates Degree in Law Enforcement from The Thornton Community College in South Holland, IL, a graduate of the Chicago Police Academy, and graduated from the 184th session of the FBI National Academy. He is a certified Law Enforcement Trainer by American Society of Law Enforcement Training and chairman of the Police Survival Tactics Committee of the American Federation of Police.

Daniel Harding began his career in law enforcement as a military policeman in the United States Marine Corps. He continued the endeavor and attended the Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy, Salisbury, MD. Daniel briefly worked as a police officer on the lower shore of Maryland before joining the ranks of the Dorchester and Queen Anne’s County Sheriffs Office Patrol Divisions. Daniel received numerous citations for his highway drug interdiction efforts and was voted Deputy of the Year in 1999. Harding developed Dorchester County’s first Field Training Officer (FTO) Program and was a member of the Honor Guard and Bicycle Patrol Unit at both agencies.

Daniel decided to shift the direction of his career and became a federal agent and was employed by the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Harding was assigned to the U.S. Secret Service’s Baltimore and D.C. Metro Area Fraud Task Forces where he investigated domestic and international fraud schemes. Harding was also assigned to the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force in Greenbelt, MD. Harding was nominated as Agent of the Year in 2003, 2004, and received various citations for investigative excellence. Harding has supplemented the protection detail for a U.S. Cabinet member for the last three years and recently transferred to the Protective Services Division full-time. Daniel is a distinguished firearms instructor and certified armorer who provides instruction on active shooter scenarios, alternate/survival shooting skills, and close-quarters combat shooting.

Daniel is majoring in Political Science while attending the University of Maryland University College and enjoys spending time with his family.

Mr. McDonald began his law enforcement career in 1966 as an Air Force security policeman which included a tour of duty at Tan Son Nhut A.F.B, Saigon R.V.N. serving with the 377th Combat Security Police Squadron during the TET offensive in 1967 thru 1968.

He joined the Columbus Ohio Police Department in 1970 until leaving the department in 1972 to join an elite undercover anti-drug force entitled Multi-State U.N.I.T. (Undercover Narcotics and Intelligence Technicians), headed by the Former Columbus Police Chief Dwight Joseph Senior. Mr. McDonald worked the Tri-State area of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia with Mr. Berry on numerous undercover operations over the next two years.

Mr. McDonald served from 1974 to 1982 as a Franklin County Deputy Sheriff. During his time with the Sheriff’s Department he served in corrections, patrol, courtroom security and the S.W.A.T. team. While serving with the Sheriff’s Department Mr. McDonald was a certified PR-24 baton and Kubaton instructor for law enforcement personnel. He also instructed civilians in the techniques of the Kubaton in a self designed two hour long class entitled “Citizen Survival Course”.

Mr. McDonald had also assisted in Officer Street Survival and Anti-Terrorism Courses at the Attorney General’s Office, Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy, located in London, Ohio. Most recently he has worked as a licensed Private Investigator from 1998 to 2008 in San Diego, California

While working for Baechler Investigative Services he received several certificates for outstanding accomplishment in specific job related areas.

Other Certifications:

Ohio Peace Officers Training Certificate California Private Investigator License #25231 Member Private Investigators of California Association (P.I.C.A.)

Rick Colliver is the course developer and lead instructor in the Principal Protection program at the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy and is an adjunct instructor in protective operations through several police, military and academic organizations. He has served as the global security director for two multi-national corporations with operations in 24 time zones, and has managed protection details in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

A frequent contributor to online media such as bodyguardcareers.com and PoliceLink, Rick also writes for publications such as Tactical Gear and The Operator; The Journal of the Ohio Tactical Officer’s Association.

Rick is the co-author and narrator of School Safety and Security; An All-Hazards Approach (http://seem.findlay.edu/products/displaydd84.html?241q7p6vq=EDEE) and a contributing author to Gruber’s Physical and Technical Security; An Introduction (Thomson Delmar) (http://www.amazon.com/Physical-Technical-Security-Robert-Gruber/dp/1401850669 ).

Rick is a frequent speaker at industry and professional meetings and has been the Master of Ceremonies for the annual Award of Valor presentation at the Ohio Statehouse since the Ohio Military Hall of Fame’s inauguration on July 7, 2000.

Rick received his Bachelor’s degree in Criminology from The Ohio State University and has completed graduate work in Organizational Behavior through the University of Phoenix, and Crisis Management through the American Military University. He maintains his law enforcement credentials through the Union County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Office, where he continues to serve as a reserve deputy and hostage negotiator. Since 2005, Rick has served on the Public Health and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Advisory Committees for Ohio Homeland Security, Ohio Department of Public Safety.

In addition to his training programs for corporate security and law enforcement audiences, Rick is a Concealed Carry Instructor, holding multiple certifications from the NRA, and is proud to be an affiliate instructor with John Farnam’s Defense Training International, with whom he has taught such programs as Advanced Defensive Handgun, Defensive Firearms for Protection Specialists, Crisis Shooting and Urban Rifle/Shotgun.

Throughout his career, he has held certifications as an OPOTA Instructor (1984), CPP (1988), CFE (1989), Rescue SCUBA Diver (1994), EMT (1995), and CHS III (2006). However, he now maintains only one certification in Protective Operations Management, because, as he puts it, “No one likes going to meetings”.