Dennis W. Bowman, Ph.D.
Dr.
Bowman formed PSSG to provide an array of consulting and training services
to public safety agencies in the United States. He retired in 1999 from the
Illinois State Police with the rank of Captain and held various command positions
such as Accreditation Manager, Community Policing, Research and Development,
Staff Services, Drug Enforcement, and District Commander. He is a graduate
of the FBI National Academy and held several leadership posts in the alumni
organization, including state chapter president in 1999.
Dr. Bowman obtained both his doctorate and master’s degrees from Southern Illinois University. His Ph.D. is in Education while his Master's is in Administration of Justice. Dr. Bowman served as adjunct faculty in the Administration of Justice department at SIU for several years. He presently serves as a professor at Western Illinois University, teaching in areas of policing, management, and criminal investigations to undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, he is the Director of the Institute for Applied Criminal Justice Studies at WIU which is actively involved in the development of research, education and training initiatives for the criminal justice professions.
He serves as a consultant for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., in the areas of law enforcement accreditation and policy. The department will become the largest agency in the United States once it is accredited. He has also done consulting work for other agencies in many law enforcement initiatives and programs. Dr. Bowman has published articles on accreditation and community policing, and has guest lectured at the Institute for Police Technology and Management (IPTM) at Orlando, Florida in staff inspections and internal auditing.
Dr. Bowman has served for over 10 years as a Certified Assessor for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), and was selected to serve on two Standards Review Task Forces in 1993 and 1997 which rewrote standards. He was a task force member of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation program which is under the auspices of the Federal law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) at Glynco, Georgia.
Executive Vice President:
Angela L. Wingo, Ph.D.
Dr.
Wingo has over 10 years of progressive experience in the field of police psychology
and teaching in the university and community college systems in the state
of Illinois. She has a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Educational
Psychology with a specialization in Counseling Education. Her Master’s
degree is in Rehabilitation Counseling from SIU and Bachelor’s degree
is in Psychology, also from SIU. Dr. Wingo has extensive experience in training
and consulting public safety agencies nationwide. She has owned and operated
a private practice since 1995.
Dr. Wingo’s counseling and training experiences in law enforcement include dealing with critical incident stress, motivational methods, critical decision making needs, and ethical behavior. She coordinates pre-employment psychological screenings, fitness for duty, special promotional assessments, and post-offer psychological screenings for law enforcement and public safety candidates. Her services also include career development counseling, training and assessments. She is also featured in two videos, Police Officer Stress and Stress Trauma, sold through http://www.lineofduty.com.
In addition to working with federal, state and local agencies in training and personnel related issues, Dr. Wingo instructs at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and Southwestern Illinois College in several psychology related courses. Her professional credentials include: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (Illinois); National Certified Clinical Forensics Counselor; National Certified Counselor; and Certified Assessor, Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).
Associate:Barry M. Anderson, J.D.
As
an attorney, Barry has extensive experience in criminal and civil areas of
the law and brings to the consulting field over 30 years of progressive experience
both in legal administration and litigation matters that are of concern to
public safety organizations. As a prosecutor in Iowa, Barry was responsible
for advising the county board on matters relating to the operations of a sheriff’s
office which included criminal and civil litigation, law enforcement training
needs, and policy and procedures. His extensive experiences and interests
have recently included U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding the civil liability
areas for police, corrections and their supervisors and employers. The specific
areas of his expertise include Excessive Use of Force, Vehicle Pursuit Liability,
inadequate Training issues, Negligent Hiring and Retention problems and types
of defenses to Law Enforcement Liability.
He has argued numerous criminal cases in the Iowa Supreme Court, elected Lee County attorney, and has served as a magistrate judge in Lee County. Barry’s academic credentials and experiences go well beyond the functions and responsibilities of public safety agencies. As a university professor at Western Illinois University (WIU), Barry teaches courses in policing, corrections, juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal evidence, and seminars on capital punishment. Barry has a Master of Arts degree in LEJA from WIU received in 1994 and a Bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. He has recently written and published several articles dealing with the death penalty. He wrote the article “Death Penalty in Iowa” for the book Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice: Shaping Tomorrow’s System.”
Associate:
William P. McCamey,
Ph.D.
Dr.
McCamey has extensive experience in the field of fire administration and served
as a full-time firefighter and criminal investigator for several years. He
also serves as an adjunct instructor for the National Fire Academy. He has
published numerous articles on fire science and criminal justice in general.
Dr. McCamey received his doctorate degree from the University of Iowa and his Master’s degree from Western Illinois University. He currently teaches at WIU in the areas of management, fire science and policing. He also serves as the editor of the Journal of Security Administration. Dr. McCamey brings a considerable amount of experience for public safety agencies in the development of their police and fire departments and programs.
Associate:
John Rob
John
Rob is an experienced, innovative law enforcement officer and management/security
consultant bringing many years of experience to all aspects of law enforcement
and security. He offers a unique combination of practical experience in public
safety and security, government, consulting services and management. Mr. Rob
is experienced in all aspects of law enforcement and security operations,
risk analysis and needs assessment, critical incident response and emergency
management, organizational analysis, program assessment and evaluation, strategic
planning, and training. He has conducted seminars at a number of national
conferences and presented training to various groups.
Mr. Rob was Deputy Chief of Police for the Fairfax County Police Department, the largest local law enforcement agency in Virginia. In that capacity, he was responsible for all operations and administration within the department. He was also instrumental in the development of emergency response plans and has practical experience commanding numerous on-scene emergency response incidents. In addition, Mr. Rob created a new police helicopter unit within the police department. At the time of his retirement, the Department had almost 1500 employees and Fairfax County had over 900,000 residents.
Following his retirement from the Fairfax County Police Department, Mr. Rob took a position as Executive Vice President with the Center for Public Safety managing a major Federal project. The project was designed to upgrade law enforcement in 10 housing authority police departments and provide security and police technical assistance to housing authorities and the Federal government. Mr. Rob was also instrumental in providing assistance that enabled 8 housing police departments to achieve international police accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). He also had the unique experience of creating an entirely new police department for the U.S. Virgin Islands Housing Authority.
Mr. Rob is currently providing consulting services offering law enforcement, public safety, and security assistance. He has performed comprehensive public safety management and organizational studies and security surveys for government and private entities. Mr. Rob has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Law Enforcement and Corrections and a Master of Science Degree in Management. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Police Executive Research Foundation's Senior Management Institute for Police.
Associate:
Bryce F. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Dr.
Bryce Sullivan received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Ohio
State University in 1997. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Illinois
and Missouri. He is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Psychology
at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he teaches advanced courses
in psychopathology, cognitive assessment, personality assessment and forensic
psychology. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the Medical
College of Virginia with training in forensic psychology, inpatient psychiatry,
and neurological assessment. He also completed Forensic Evaluation Training
at the University of Virginia. His recent consulting activities have included
conducting psychological evaluations for the Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville Police Department and the Legal Advocacy Service of the Illinois
Guardianship and Advocacy Commission at Alton Mental Health Center.
Associate:
Portia Yvonne Swinson is a retired member of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. During her twenty-five years on the Department she worked in several police districts in the patrol section as an officer, sergeant and lieutenant. The last five years of her career she was assigned to the Planning and Research Division in charge of the Accreditation Unit.
Upon her retirement she worked for a year and a half with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives as the office manager.
She joined the Georgetown University’s Department of Public Safety May 1, 2000 as the Accreditation and Training Manager. Her first assignment was to single-handedly prepare the Department for a Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) on-site assessment, held five months later in October 2000. It should be noted that this process normally takes a staff of at least four individuals a year of intense preparation. Since that initial 2000 CALEA on-site, she succeeded in leading the Department through a second on-site, held in April 2002, again unassisted. For these accomplishments she was given an Outstanding Individual Achievement Award on May 3, 2002. Ms. Swinson was promoted to the rank of Assistant Director on May 1, 2005 and she currently is responsible for Accreditation, Training and the Communication Section.
Ms. Swinson has served for over ten years as a Certified Assessor for the
Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). She has
conducted over twenty on-site assessments for various law enforcement agencies,
to include colleges, universities, and state and sheriffs police departments.
Associate:
Donald Whitehead
Mr. Whitehead served in various positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) while attending college full time at Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma majoring in Business Administration where he graduated in June, 1974. Mr. Whitehead was accepted as a candidate for the Special Agent (SA) position in November, 1976 and successfully completed training in March, 1977. Mr. Whitehead's over 30 year career in the FBI has involved successfully handling a very wide array of investigative and administrative assignments affording him experience in all aspects of executive management of a law enforcement organization. His FBI career has many significant highlights including being the designated Acting Deputy Assistant Director of the Lab in the late 1990's. During this time Mr. Whitehead led the Lab's initial response to certain major incidents to include the Khobar Towers Bombing, TWA 800 Aircraft Disaster and the Olympic Park Bombing.
At the culmination of his career, Mr. Whitehead was promoted to the position
of Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Springfield, Illinois with responsibility
for all FBI interests in this office of over 100 personnel covering 84 counties
in Central and Southern Illinois in 8 separate offices. Mr. Whitehead maintained
extensive liaison with a wide variety of law enforcement officials, governmental,
community and business leaders through active membership in a variety of professional
organizations and personal contacts. Mr. Whitehead also served as a board
member of the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board and the
Central Illinois Chief's Association.
He retired in November 2001.
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