Jamie Borden - CIR, Founder
Force Investigations Specialist, Court Certified Expert.
P.O.S.T. certified in 1997, a police veteran of a large Police Department in Nevada, Sergeant Jamie Borden was tasked with the creation and implementation of the “Use of Force Training and Analysis Unit” for the agency. The unit was created specifically to identify and analyze police performance issues related to police use-of-force and police training.
In addition to successfully completing the Certification in Force Analysis course from the Force Science Institute, Borden was also the first person in the world to complete the Advanced Force Science Specialist Program created by the Institute holding that Certification independently for nearly three years.
Sgt. Jamie Borden
Jamie is court certified as an expert in the Following Topics: Controversial Use of Force, Police Performance Dynamics, Forensic Video Examination, Officer/subject movement dynamics, Controversial Officer-Involved Shootings, and Attentional Issues related to Officer Involved Critical Incidents, Police Training and Police Policy, Procedure and Practice .
Sgt. Borden is currently lecturing for C.I.R. and with the Force Science Institute, training & Lecturing officers nationwide in Police Performance and dynamics related to force encounters and decision-making as applicable to the law enforcement profession.
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Dr. Paul Taylor
Assistant Professor - University of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Paul Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver where he studies decision making and human error in the context of use-of-force encounters. He is also a Senior Instructor and Course Coordinator for the Force Science Institute.
Dr. Taylor has over ten years of practical law enforcement experience including time as a department training manager, patrol sergeant, field training officer, and use-of-force instructor. He is a Colorado POST certified train-the-trainer and an IADLEST Certified Instructor. Dr. Taylor has delivered law enforcement instruction for academy, field training, and advanced in-service audiences as well as graduate and undergraduate level courses in both classroom and online formats.
He is actively engaged in law enforcement research and training across the United States and regularly presents at both academic and practitioner conferences.
Dr. Edward Geiselman, Ph.D.