Eric Peterman

Eric has been a Deputy Sheriff in Kansas and a Detective, Sergeant and Chief of Police in the State of Wisconsin. He has taught numerous topics in police recruit schools and in-service police training schools. During most of Eric’s police career he was usually teaching part time at various Community Colleges in Wisconsin on police topics and/or point reduction/DUI driving schools  He has also taught Criminal Investigation at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee including areas as crime scene investigation, photography, evidence and chain of custody, fingerprinting and latent fingerprinting, warrantless/warrant issues, interviews/interrogations and constitutional law for investigators.

Eric was also Assistant Director of Police In-Service Training for the Metro Milwaukee Police Training area at Milwaukee Area Technical College, South Campus.  In this position he helped develop/design the classes to meet in-service training needs for police officers and also selected the instructors to teach and monitored their teaching effectiveness. He maintained liaison with all the surrounding Suburban Metro Milwaukee Chief’s to make sure the training met each department’s needs and responded to their needs with appropriate classes. He also maintained liaison with the State of Wisconsin Police Training Standards Board to assure compliance with all regulations for training standards for police. He taught classes for in-service police and the recruit school. Eric also developed special needs classes for shorter seminars as Arson Investigation, Police Pursuit Driving, New Sergeant School and New Detective school to name a few.

Eric also was very interested in business/industry security/safety needs especially in executive security and anti terrorism issues. He studied and worked part time as a security consultant for several companies, one of them a large South American company while he was a police officer and teaching. The South American Company finally hired Eric away from Police work/teaching in America and he lived in Venezuela, South America and worked as their Director of Security. This entailed all executive protection, aircraft protection, training, hiring, equipping and training of firearms, building protection, safety, computer/data protection, and payroll protection/changes. Factory and office locations were throughout the country and protection of some assets near the Columbian border was of great concern. Work was also performed with business alliances in Ecuador, Chile and the Caribbean.

Eric is co-author of a book regarding criminal justice graduates/educational costing and their retention/impact in the criminal justice system. He also was granted a design patent from the United States Department of Commerce Patent Office.

Eric is a graduate of the DEA Drug Enforcement School. He holds an ABA approved Paralegal degree, a Bachelor of Arts degree in History/Political Science from Bethany College (Cum Laude) and a Master of Science degree in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University.

Eric is a FDLE, Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission Certified Police Instructor for Police Recruit and Police In-Service Training.