Our Centers for Ethics:
Trainers, speakers, and consultants
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The Center for Policing Ethics is proud to have assembled a distinguished national faculty of trainers and panel of speakers and consultants. Call 800-711-2670 to schedule a presentation or consultation.
- Jim Anderson – chief of police Read more »
- Dave Bertini – police captain Read more »
- Bob Harrison – chief of police (retired) Read more »
- Lanny Roark – police lieutenant Read more »
- Larry V. Smith – supervisor, employee defense representative, LAPD (retired) Read more »
- Mark J. Wittenberg – policing instructor Read more »
- Jon D. Zeliff – chief of police Read more »
Jim Anderson is chief of police at Placentia Police Department in California and has 28 years of law-enforcement experience. Formerly a captain of the Orange Police Department, Chief Anderson served as detective division commander, field services division commander, administrative services division commander, administrative lieutenant, patrol watch commander, communications bureau manager, internal affairs sergeant, narcotics/vice sergeant, administrative sergeant, and patrol sergeant.
Chief Anderson is a graduate of the POST Command College and POST Supervisory Leadership Institute and teaches at Golden West Criminal Justice Training Center. He regularly speaks at conferences and conducts workshops on ethics and leadership.
He holds a master’s degree from Pacific Christian College in marriage, family, and child counseling and a bachelor’s in church growth and administration of justice.
Chief Anderson is an active member of Rotary International and volunteers at his church. He is also an avid outdoorsman and has competed in several triathlons and marathons.
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Captain Dave Bertini is a 20-year veteran of the Pacifica Police Department in California. He has been a sergeant for more than 11 years, working as a patrol officer, gang officer, and detective.
Captain Bertini has broad experience as a law-enforcement instructor at the college level and as an in-service policing trainer. An adjunct professor in the Administration of Justice Department at the College of San Mateo, Captain Bertini teaches courses on criminal justice and ethics in law enforcement along with numerous subjects in the Basic Academy Modular format. At the South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium he teaches courses on search and seizure, laws of arrest, interrogation, in-progress crimes, and NIMS (National Incident Management System), SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System), and ICS (Incident Command System).
He is a graduate of the College of San Mateo and Saint Mary’s College. He is also a POST certified instructor and has completed the California POST Master Instructor Development Program, a one-year intensive program designed to create a cadre of highly trained law-enforcement instructors throughout the state.
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Chief Bob Harrison has taught at every level of police training, from basic academy instruction to his current work with the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Command College.
Chief Harrison served as a peace officer for more than 30 years, completing his career in 2004 as a chief of police. A facilitator and instructor in educational and public-safety settings for over 16 years, his expertise is in communication, leadership training, and ethics education.
Extensively published in police periodicals, he is the author of Writing Your Command College Article, a guidebook for students in California’s executive-development program for police managers. He was also a member of the editorial review board for Josephson Institute’s Becoming an Exemplary Peace Officer handbook for basic academies in California.
A Fulbright Fellow in Police Studies, Chief Harrison holds two master’s degrees and is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership. From 2004-2006, he was a POST management fellow charged with implementing facilitation-skills development for California’s 3,500 academy instructors. As a part of that work, he has presented findings on the issue of emerging learners to more than 1,200 instructors.
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Lieutenant Lanny Roark is a 24-year law-enforcement veteran, currently serving as the nightshift watch commander in National City, California, near the border with Mexico. He has also worked as investigations division commander, special assistant to the chief of police, and with internal affairs and the department’s Neighborhood Policing Team.
Lieutenant Roark has served as a special consultant to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) in the areas of ethics, leadership, and community policing. He taught for the Regional Community Policing Institute and was instrumental in the formation of his department’s team on Community Policing and Problem-Solving.
Lieutenant Roark holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and is a graduate of the West Point Leadership Program and the Supervisory Leadership Institute. He is the cofounder and former chairperson of the San Diego County Law Enforcement Task Force on Underage Drinking. He also serves as an appointed member of the San Diego County Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board, representing San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox in District 1.
Lieutenant Roark lives in San Diego with his wife and three children.
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Larry V. Smith is a multi-jurisdictional (California and Texas) court-certified mediator and arbitrator with over 20 years of experience in non-adversarial problem-solving. He has vast experience in employment, civil, and family mediation in both civil and criminal matters.
Dr. Smith is a retired supervisor and employee defense representative with the Los Angeles Police Department. In 20 years with the LAPD, he has patrolled several divisions of Los Angeles, including undercover work in vice and narcotics. Dr. Smith was a field and detective supervisor for four years and last served as a divisional watch commander responsible for law enforcement and related services for over 300,000 people.
He is a California-credentialed community college instructor and has served as an adjunct professor for UCLA’s School of Public Policy.
Dr. Smith holds a doctorate in biblical studies and a master’s in behavioral science. He has over 1,200 hours of formal instruction with supervised applications in negotiations and conflict management. He also has handled over 300 cases as a third party neutral specializing in civil, criminal, and employment discrimination and sexual- harassment matters.
Dr. Smith is married, has two adult sons, and lives in Galveston Island, Texas.
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Mark J. Wittenberg has been an active police professional for three decades. Over the last 16 years he has assisted officers and administrators with organizational and personal development. Recognized as an innovative trainer and developer, he is a certified team-building presenter with the California Commission on Peace Officer’s Standards and Training, leading team-building workshops for many police departments.
Mr. Wittenberg has conducted law-enforcement leadership and ethics training at many levels. As a facilitator for California’s Supervisory Leadership Institute, he has helped sergeants throughout the state become more effective leaders. He has also conducted a series of leadership and team-building trainings for California’s Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.
Mr. Wittenberg conducts audits of police performance and has acted as a subject-matter expert in a number of curriculum-development steering committees including the Field Training Officer Committee, Management of the Field Training Officer Program Committee, and Command College Curriculum Review Committee.
Mark has a master’s degree in public administration from the California State University at Long Beach Center for Public Policy. He is a graduate of the California Command College Class #30, where he was elected co-class speaker by his classmates.
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Jon D. Zeliff, chief of the Central Point Police Department in Oregon, began his policing career in 1984 as a reserve officer. Since then he has served in a wide range of roles in policing and public service: patrol officer, narcotics detective, field training officer, police corporal, sergeant, detective sergeant/child abuse investigator, SWAT team member, team commander, public safety lieutenant, and survival skills instructor.
Chief Zeliff is also an experienced ethics trainer, having conducted programs for public-safety professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest including at the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference. He is the Oregon chapter director for the International Association of Ethics Trainers and is a member of the Center for Law Enforcement Ethics at the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration, the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Before completing advanced coursework on police ethics at the Center for Law Enforcement Ethics in Texas, Chief Zeliff earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwest Christian College and an associate’s degree in criminal justice from Rogue Community College.
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