Detective Christopher Torres
The Bronx,NY
Summary
Astute Detective and Training Academy Instructor skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges. Exceptional communicator with skills for alleviating tension in high-pressure situations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Academy Instructor
Parkchester Police Department
Bronx, NY
11.2022 - Current
- Instructs on learning material aligned with Peace Officer standards and training.
- Plan, organize, implement, and evaluate lesson plans, which include course outlines, PowerPoint presentations, and relevant instructional handouts.
- Coordinates physical fitness programs, in-service training, and new-recruit training.
- Participates in professional development programs and collaborated with academy staff to successfully achieve objectives for training.
- Administer standardized tests to assess progress and evaluated need for enhancing course materials
- Conducts on-the-job training classes and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, and methods of diverse subjects.
- Maintains student records, documenting progress, attendance, and program requirements.
- Gives constructive feedback to students to improve learning and progress against course objectives.
- Supports seamless hearing processes for management, building rapport, and credibility with officers as their advocate.
Peace Officer
Parkchester Police Department
Bronx, NY
04.2018 - Current
- Opens investigations into issues brought up by individuals in community.
- Collaborates with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation of criminal activities.
- Interviews victims and suspects using appropriate techniques in order to collect accurate information about the incident.
- Manages surveillance of individuals, specific properties and events.
- Speaks with witnesses, collected descriptions and located persons of interest.Maintain public safety and order, respond to emergencies, protect individuals and property, enforce motor vehicle and criminal laws, and foster positive community relations.
- Identifies, pursues, and arrests suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts
- Records facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities
- Monitors patrol area for suspicious persons, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity
- Relays complaint and emergency
- Requests information to appropriate agency dispatchers
- Renders assistance to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries or medical crises.
- Produces detailed reports on arrests and accidents.
Security Officer
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Brooklyn, NY
05.2017 - 08.2018
- Initiated appropriate actions pertaining to violations of rules within the hospital & resolve situations in a timely manner
- Conducted patrols of hospital to ensure safety of staff and patients
- Wrote reports of daily activities and irregularities such as equipment and property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons and unusual occurrences
- Secured and protect psychiatric patients on the daily basis
- Helped secure City and Federal inmates when on hospital visits
Security Agent
Global Operations
New York, NY
11.2016 - 03.2017
- Responsible for scanning the facility before and after shift
- Performed perimeter checks throughout the day
- Monitored all facility activity and provided guest assistance as needed
- Responsible for scanning inside as well as outside of school buses for suspicious objects -CCTV scans to ensure guests and staff always complied with safety rules and regulations
- Provided daily logs as well as prepare and submit incident reports
- Shift Lead as well as trained personnel.
Crisis Intervention Worker
The New Life School
Bronx, NY
09.2009 - 06.2015
- Maintained high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students
- Responsible for checking in students through metal detectors and scanning their belongings as well as signing them into school -Perform daily walk-through inspections of facility including visual inspections of doors, landings, drop off zones and signage -Aid students with individual crisis intervention
- Assisted educational staff in compiling formal assessments to assure proper individual instruction -Lead independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up assigned by the teacher -Coordinate the facilitation of educational programming services and activities for children -Assist in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills for students based on individual needs, interests and abilities -Serve as chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
Education
Behavioral Sciences
Mercy College, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Bronx, NY09.2008
Skills
- Initial Course in Firearms and Deadly Physical Force, Apr 2024
- Defensive Tactics Instructor, Dec 2023
- Physical Fitness Instructor, Sept 2023
- Fundamental Crisis Intervention Skills for Law Enforcement Instructor Course, July 2023
- Implicit Bias Instructor, June 2023
- Principled Policing Instructor Course, March 2023
- Law Enforcement Bicycle Association Certified
- HIDTA (Clearing Rooms), Jan 2023
- First Aid, CPR, and AED Instruction Course, Jan 2023
- Instructional Development Course, Sept 2022
- Field Training Officer, Oct 2022
Accomplishments
- Officer of the Month, Feb 2022
- Officer of The Month, July 2020
- Unit Citation (2nd Platoon) 2020
Timeline
Academy Instructor
Parkchester Police Department
11.2022 - Current
Peace Officer
Parkchester Police Department
04.2018 - Current
Security Officer
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
05.2017 - 08.2018
Security Agent
Global Operations
11.2016 - 03.2017
Crisis Intervention Worker
The New Life School
09.2009 - 06.2015
Behavioral Sciences
Mercy College, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences
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