Nicholas Thatcher

School Resource Officer, February 2025 – Present

• Provide proactive on-campus security
• Ensure students, staff, and visitors have a safe learning environment.
• Serve as a liaison between the school community (students, staff, and parents), the school district, and the Deer Park Police Department
• Facilitating effective communication and cooperation
• Foster positive relationships between law enforcement and students through mentorship and community engagement, helping to build trust and understanding for future interactions with law enforcement
• Monitor and enforce safety protocols while maintaining a visible presence, promoting a culture of respect, responsibility, and safety within the school environment.

Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, March 2011 - Present

• Use negotiation techniques to resolve an emergency crisis (e.g., barricaded subject, hostage situation, suicide attempt, etc.) and bring it to a peaceful and safe conclusion.
• Provide intelligence information on suspects and hostages

Senior Detective, January 2014 – January 2025

• Investigate crime associated with narcotics, vice, and organized crime investigations.
• Conduct initial and follow-up investigations.
• Perform skilled investigative work with minimal supervision in the office and field.
• Investigate alleged crimes against persons or property, child abuse/neglect, and missing persons or juvenile runaways. Specialization that requires a primary focus on investigations that involve crimes against children and sexual assaults.
• Work with other detectives in the division, other officers in the department, other law enforcement agencies, CPS, and Staff at the Children’s Assessment Center to investigate crimes and apprehend suspects.
• Work with the District Attorney’s Office to properly document charging documents, subpoenas, and warrants. Keep open communication with the victims and their families to ensure the investigations are handled professionally and maturely.

Patrol Officer, June 2009 – January 2014

• Perform patrol of assigned sectors
• Respond to dispatched calls for service
• Enforce local and state criminal and traffic laws
• Testify in court cases
• Swear out arrest warrants on wanted suspects
• And perform other law enforcement tasks.
• Work with the city's community members to develop a relationship with the community

• Perform patrol of assigned sectors
• Respond to dispatched calls for service
• Enforce state criminal and traffic laws
• Testify in general sessions court cases
• Prosecute misdemeanor cases in magistrate’s court
• Prosecute traffic cases in traffic court
• Swear out arrest warrants on wanted suspects
• And other law enforcement tasks.

• Completed night audit for guest ledgers to close bank and cash registers, reconciling issues quickly, and marking discrepancies.
• Controlled cash and credit card payment transactions at front desk to successfully reduce errors.
• Kept accounts in balance and ran daily reports to verify totals.
• Handled emergency situations calmly and professionally, keeping guest safety as the top priority at all times.
• Demonstrated proficiency in various software systems used for reservation management, billing adjustments, and report generation.

• Senior technology support specialist for Change Management
• Senior technology support specialist for Release Management
• Responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and administrating the department’s servers, databases, and applications.
• Supervised a global team of developers in US, UK, Hong Kong, and various cites in South America.
• Assigned the project manager responsibility for all application projects assigned to the team.