During her active duty career, she became one of only two women ever to achieve the rank of Chief Ranger in the Ohio State Park system. She received two lifesaving awards, one for saving the life of a fellow officer on a domestic call. This incident has been used by Calibre Press in its Street Survival national seminars from 1988 to 1996. She worked with the Erie County Drug Task Force performing high-risk warrant service and narcotics raids. She now specializes in training.

Her background includes serving as an instructor in several topics of the basic police academy curriculum. She is a state-certified Master Instructor in instructional skills, and assisted in the development of the State of Ohio’s cultural diversity lesson plan for the basic peace officer curriculum. She presents advanced management and career courses on an in-service basis at police and sheriff’s departments, POST academies, and colleges across the United States. She is an active member of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training (ASLET), where she is on the Standards and Membership Committees. She is a frequent presenter at the ASLET International Training Seminars.

She was an instructor with the Transportation Security Administration’s first airport security personnel deployment, the largest civilian training initiative since WWII. Her principal client for homeland security training is the Center for Terrorism Preparedness at the University of Findlay (CTP.) She is the principal author of CTP’s maritime security curriculum. She wrote the Port Facility Security Officer course (33 CFR 105), and obtained U. S. Maritime Administration approval for the course. In 2005, she wrote the maritime security column for Domesticpreparedness.com, an on-line homeland security journal.

She has a Bachelor's degree in history from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is now Chief Executive Officer at Public Safety Training, Inc.

Grace Matthews, a veteran law enforcement officer, has worked for the Metro-Dade Police Department since 1981. One of the first female police firearms instructors in the nation, Grace has served as coordinator and primary instructor in the department's Qualification Enhancement Course, Marksmanship Development Program, and Survival Techniques for Female Officers course.

She has designed and conducted numerous training programs. Among these are General Criminal Investigation Surveillance Techniques, Gang Investigation and Awareness, and Stress Management and Resolution. She is an instructor in the Street Terror Offender Program (STOP), Robbery Intervention Detail (RID), Threat Management, Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), 9mm Carbine training, (HK) MP5 training and Semi-Automatic Transitional training. She is also a Human Diversity Instructor.

Grace is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Florida International University. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Comparative Sociology. While she was coordinator of the Violence Reduction Training Program, that program received the Excellence in Training award presented by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. She was the developer of Metro-Dade's popular Survival Techniques for Female Officers Program. She has coordinated regional training conferences for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI).

She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of IALEFI. She is an active member of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Florida Women in Law Enforcement, and the Hispanic Officers Association.

Lt. Michael J. Frank

Lt. Frank is a twenty year veteran of the Sandusky (OH) Police Department,
currently a patrol division supervisor.

Over the course of his career Lt. Frank has received numerous letters of
commendation, as well as the following awards: Meritorious Service, Life
Saving, Safe Driving, Exceptional Duty.

Lt. Frank has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Heidelberg College, and is currently the Commander of the Sandusky Basic Police Academy, Commander of the Sandusky Police SRT (SWAT) team, past Commander of the Sandusky Police Reserve Unit, active member of the Marine Patrol and Bike Patrol units of the SPD.

Lt. Frank holds instructor certificates is the following areas of study: ASP
baton, PR-24 baton, PPCT Management System, Firearms, Defensive Tactics,
Driving, and Instructional Skills. Lt. Frank has developed numerous training
programs for these fields and has extensive experience in policy and procedure design and application.

Steven D. Ashley, M.S., M.L.S., MFCI, MUFI, ARM-P, CHS-III, CLS2

Steve began his law enforcement career in 1974. Over the next fifteen years, he served in various functional capacities with both municipal and county police agencies. From 1978 until his retirement in 1989, Steve was a Deputy Sheriff in Livingston County, Michigan. As a Deputy, he spent several years working as a patrol officer, and was promoted to Sergeant in 1982. Following a three year assignment as commander of the afternoon shift, Steve was appointed to the newly created position of Staff Services Administrator, where he had primary responsibility for the administrative support functions of the department, including research and development of all departmental policies, development and presentation of training programs, management of the department’s training effort, supervision of the department's community service programs, and coordination of the department's Emergency Management function. He also served as Chief Instructor and department Armorer.