Peggy Schaefer

Experience

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  Guilford County Sheriff's Office

  Jan 1981 - Jan 1983

  Deputy Sheriff

  Civil Division Deputy responsible for serving civil, criminal, child custody, and property confiscation summonses/subpoenas.

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  Greensboro Police Department

  Jan 1983 - Jan 1988

  Police Officer

  Enforced criminal laws, conducted interviews, investigated persons and arrested offenders. Completed official reports and testified in court. Developed and implemented the department’s Wellness and Peer Counseling programs. Other duty assignments included Personnel/Recruitment Officer and Vice/Narcotics Detective.

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  Fayetteville Police Department

  Jan 1990 - Oct 2023

  Reserve Police Officer

  Voluntarily assist full-time law enforcement personnel with special events and uniform patrol duty functions.

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  North Carolina Justice Academy

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2010

  Leader of internationally accredited agency responsible for all State sanctioned public safety licensing curriculums and training provider for 85,000+ criminal justice personnel annually. Accountable for dual campus operations, 102 full-time employees and $7.2M annual budget. NC Attorney General Liaison for 630+ law enforcement agencies. Liaison and sole training resource for NC Criminal Justice and NC Sheriff’s Education and Training Standards Commissions. • Launched new on-line LMS with 25+ courses• Procured >$12M in renovation and capital improvement projects• NCJA became the 1st agency in NC (13th in the nation) to earn CALEA accreditation Show less CFO for all facility and budget operations at east (Salemburg) and west (Edneyville) campuses. Responsible for 99 acres and 205,000+ square feet of building space to include, classroom, dormitory, cafeteria, library, crime lab, firearm range, driving track, gymnasium, auditorium, office, print shop and production buildings. Managed team of 42 full-time employees to include housekeeping, maintenance/grounds, business office, AV production unit, support and bookstore employees. Developed expansion budget requests, RFPs, and capital improvement plans. Responsible for selection and oversight of competitive contractual services. Managed multi-million dollar printing and NCJA bookstore operations. • Appointed to Director position by NC Attorney General• Authored policy manual to meet accreditation (CALEA) guidelines• Procured funding for new gymnasium, dormitory renovations and print shop upgrades Show less Managed 10 specialized trainers responsible for researching, developing, and delivering high liability curriculums for firearms, defensive tactics, driver training, SWAT, and mandatory train-the-trainer certification courses. Accountable for all R&D and maintenance of State’s Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET or POST) licensing curriculum and all annual mandatory In-Service training courses. Managed complete revision of State’s Instructor Development program used to prepare 500+ new instructors annually. Staffed annual delivery of 200+ courses totaling 10,000+ contact training hours for 4,000+ criminal justice participants. • Promoted to Deputy Director in 2005• Leader of five-year BLET revision project with 34 committees and 370+ SME’s• Developed first statewide (annual event) SWAT competition involving 200+ officers Show less

  • Director

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  • Deputy Director

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  • Training Manager

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2005
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  North Carolina Sheriff's Association

  Jan 2011 - Jun 2012

  Security Consultant

  Provided courthouse security assessments for Sheriffs throughout the state of North Carolina; trained LEO personnel and other building employees concerning security precautions.

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  North Carolina Department of Justice

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Testing Consultant

  Administer law enforcement licensing exams for 35 county region. Audit individual law enforcement agency and community college training files to ensure compliance with Commission (POST).

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  International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training

  May 2012 - Oct 2023

  DDACTS Project Manager

  Manage the scheduling and staffing of training workshops provided to teach law enforcement officers effective strategies to deploy resources based on community crime mapping and traffic crash and enforcement data.

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  IADLEST

  May 2015 - Oct 2023

  National Certification Project Manager

  Manages the content review process and the reviewers for the National Certification Program. Recruits, selects, trains and prepares reviewers to independently assess criminal justice training materials throughout the U.S.

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  FORCE Concepts

  May 2022 - now

  Curriculum Development Manager

  Curriculum development manager for the law enforcement profession.