Dr. James F Davis
Kearney,NE
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
Work History
Police Chief, Emergency Manager, Parking Director
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT
01.2021 - Current
University of Nebraska Threat Assessment Management Team
01.2014 - Current
University of Nebraska Kearney
01.2014 - Current
Patch Project
Pink, Greater Buffalo County
01.2015 - Current
Buffalo County Positive Pressure Coalition / Opioid Task Force
01.2016 - Current
Buffalo County Youth, Children
01.2016 - Current
Police Chief
s Association of Nebraska Legislative
01.2022 - Current
Nebraska State Wide Campus Safety Collation
01.2019 - Current
Events Team
01.2014 - Current
Threat Assessment Team Advisor
Buffalo County Substance Use Task Force
01.2015 - Current
adviser
KEARNEY
04.2015 - 05.2023
- 2023)
- Overview: Perform various duties, including overseeing routine operations of police department as well as supervising parking services and emergency management activities
- Serve as lead on particularly high-profile criminal cases, including investigating crime scenes, examining evidence, and managing investigative operations
- Establish department goals, long range plans, objectives, and procedures based upon the needs of the university and the police department.
Adjunct Instructor, Criminal Justice
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY
08.2015 - 05.2022
- Teach various courses regarding criminal justice, including CJUS 340 Criminal
- Evidence, Procedure and the Courts, CJUS 350 Organized Crime, and CJUS 320
- Technology in Criminal Justice
- Interpret and apply federal, state, and local laws and regulations within courses to ensure better understanding of students
- Created syllabus and tests to evaluate students’ performance.
Law Enforcement Instructor
James F Davis, LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
PIERRE, SD
08.2012 - 12.2021
- Enhance the knowledge and understanding of law enforcement to new recruits by organizing effective training sessions
- Developed lesson plans on suspect control, search and seizure, and traffic stop
- Instructed use of force and 4th amendment rights regarding contacts with citizens
- Operated Firearms Simulator to assist in teaching along with offering students interview guidance upon request.
Adjunct Instructor
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
GRAND ISLAND, NE
06.2013 - 05.2015
- Conducted training sessions on freshman level criminal justice programs as well as online introduction to criminal justice
- Actively engaged students through frequent interaction and conveyed genuine enthusiasm for learning
- Provided thorough and constructive feedback, utilizing rubrics to effectively assess learners’ work, while also acknowledging learner accomplishments
- Used blackboard while teaching in online classes for better assistance of students.
Instructor
NEBRASKA LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
GRAND ISLAND, NE
04.2012 - 04.2015
- Served as lead instructor for investigations and tactical communications along with handling community relations and conducting interviews/interrogation
- Developed lesson plans, Identified needs and opportunities for new training, and taught vehicle operations proficiency
- Worked as instructor for “Role of the supervisor” and “Personnel
- Expectations & Appraisals” for police and corrections supervision
- Tutored new recruits on various course assignments as per needs and requests.
Criminal Investigator
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN
LINCOLN, NE
04.2005 - 04.2012
- Conducted detailed investigations of complex criminal activities and other violations of local, federal, or state law
- Collected, analyzed, and preserved evidence along with directing with crime scene investigators and other law enforcement personnel at crime scenes
- Drafted detailed investigative reports and presented evidence to the seniors
- Enhanced knowledge and understanding of 22 police officers regarding criminal investigation by organizing effective training sessions
- Displayed exceptional performance and received the “Outstanding Law Enforcement
- Officer” award in 2007.
Sheriff
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
Osceola, NE
05.2005 - 04.2005
- Protect life and property and deter crime; responds to calls including burglaries, disturbances, accidents, robberies & other violations of the law; administers first aid; performs field interrogations; provides traffic & crowd control; issues traffic citations; deliver court papers as directed.
Osceola, Osceola Lions Club
03.1983 - 04.1988
- Member Stromsburg Fire and Rescue
- Law enforcement Liaison with the City Boards of Stromsburg, Osceola, and Shelby, NE
- Member Kearney Country Club
- COMMITTEES
- Search Committee for Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance
- University of Nebraska at Kearney
- Spring 2017.
ACTIVITIES
James F Davis
11.1981 - 03.1983
Education
D.M. Management - Criminal Justice
May, 2022
Dissertation: A Phenomenological Study of Law Enforcement Training Management
in the Area of Community Harmony
TAUGHT Criminal Justice Course 340: Criminal Evidence and Procedure - undefined
2022
Criminal Justice Course 321: Technology in Criminal Justice - undefined
2022
Use of Force, Law Enforcement Training
undefined
2022
COURSES WRITTEN AND TAUGHT Criminal Justice Course 340: Criminal Evidence and Procedure - undefined
2019
4th
and 5th
Amendments on the street. Hall County Sheriff’s Office
Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center Commencement Speech, 2022 and 2023
Anti-Bias and Implicit Bias, Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center, Management, Managers across the state, Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center
Sheriff’s Continued Education, Nebraska - undefined
2015
Supervision, Supervisors across the state, Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center, Jail Management, Jailers across the state, Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center
Criminal Justice Course 350: Organized Crime - undefined
2015
Supervision: Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center (, )
James F Davis
M.A - Criminal Justice
June, 2014
B.S - Criminal Justice
June, 2012
Summa cum laude
Kearney Criminal Justice Course 350: Organized Crime, University of - undefined
Kearney Criminal Justice Course 321: Technology in Criminal Justice - undefined
Kearney
Anti and Implicit Bias, Taught State wide, Wyoming and Iowa
Management of the 4th
and 5th
Amendments, Taught State wide
Managing Police and the Autistic Public, Scheduled to be taught State wide and South
Accomplishments
- Study of Law Enforcement Training Management in the Area of Community Harmony
- Jim Davis Sage Publishing (Paper has just been sent in)
- Note: Full Dissertation is published with Sage Publishing
- OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- P1 First Person: A veteran perspective on managing the active shooter response Jim
- Davis Police One Journal July 22, 2010
- James F Davis
- Page 4
- PRESENTATIONS
- Managing the Active Shooter Response
- University of Nebraska Kearney, March 22 and 28, 2023.
Affiliations
California: National Threat Assessment Management Conference, June 1998.
South Dakota: Presentation with Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center
(MOCIC), September 2020.
Nevada: Campus Safety Conference, July 2018.
Kansas: MIAA Leadership Conference, October 2018.
Iowa: Interrogation Management, FBI; April, 2014
CERTIFICATIONS
Nebraska Certified Law Enforcement Manager, Supervisor, Instructor and Police Officer
Nebraska Certified Corrections officer, Emergency medical Technician and Firefighter
Additional Information
- AWARDS , Chancellor’s Medal, September 2021. Presented by Chancellor Douglas Kristensen for service to the University during the COVID-19 pandemic. U,S, Attorney’s Office, District of Nebraska, Law Enforcement Coordination Award 2018 Commendation, Division of Student Affairs, University of Nebraska, Kearney. 2017 Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Education and Awareness Award 2009 Police Officer of the Year, Lincoln, NE; December 2007 Nebraska DARE Training Outstanding Student: 1998 Nebraska Emergency Services Communications President’s Award 1993, 1996, and 2005
Timeline
Police Chief - s Association of Nebraska Legislative
01.2022 - Current
Police Chief, Emergency Manager, Parking Director - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT
01.2021 - Current
- Nebraska State Wide Campus Safety Collation
01.2019 - Current
- Buffalo County Positive Pressure Coalition / Opioid Task Force
01.2016 - Current
- Buffalo County Youth, Children
01.2016 - Current
Adjunct Instructor, Criminal Justice - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY
08.2015 - 05.2022
adviser - KEARNEY
04.2015 - 05.2023
Patch Project - Pink, Greater Buffalo County
01.2015 - Current
Threat Assessment Team Advisor - Buffalo County Substance Use Task Force
01.2015 - Current
- University of Nebraska Threat Assessment Management Team
01.2014 - Current
- University of Nebraska Kearney
01.2014 - Current
- Events Team
01.2014 - Current
Adjunct Instructor - CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
06.2013 - 05.2015
Law Enforcement Instructor - James F Davis, LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
08.2012 - 12.2021
Instructor - NEBRASKA LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
04.2012 - 04.2015
Sheriff - Polk County Sheriff’s Office
05.2005 - 04.2005
Criminal Investigator - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN
04.2005 - 04.2012
- Osceola, Osceola Lions Club
03.1983 - 04.1988
ACTIVITIES - James F Davis
11.1981 - 03.1983
Colorado Technical University - D.M. Management, Criminal Justice
University of Nebraska - TAUGHT
Criminal Justice Course 340: Criminal Evidence and Procedure,
University of Nebraska, South, Center - Criminal Justice Course 321: Technology in Criminal Justice,
Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center - ,
University of Nebraska - COURSES WRITTEN AND TAUGHT
Criminal Justice Course 340: Criminal Evidence and Procedure,
Law Enforcement Training Center - Sheriff’s Continued Education, Nebraska,
University of Nebraska Kearney - Criminal Justice Course 350: Organized Crime,
University of Purdue Global - M.A, Criminal Justice
University of Purdue Global - B.S, Criminal Justice
Nebraska - Kearney
Criminal Justice Course 350: Organized Crime, University of,
University of Nebraska - Kearney
Criminal Justice Course 321: Technology in Criminal Justice,
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