Use-of-Force Tracking and Assessment: You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure

Attorney Daigle is the principal and founder of Daigle Law Group, LLC, a firm that specializes in law enforcement operations, with an emphasis on management operational consulting services. His experience focuses on civil rights actions, including police misconduct litigation and employment actions.  Mr. Daigle acts as legal advisor to police departments across the country, providing legal advice to law enforcement command staff and officers in the areas of legal liability, policy development, employment issues, use of force, laws of arrest and search and seizure. His experience focuses on internal affairs operations and use of force, specifically in the training, investigation, and supervision of force and deadly force incidents. Attorney Daigle speaks at seminars and conferences across the Country focusing on legal standards for effective and constitutional police operation. He has served as a member of the Independent Monitoring Teams for Oakland CA and formally for Niagara Falls NY.  He has worked with Law Enforcement Agencies who are under investigation of a Consent Decree by the Department of Justice Civil Rights Litigation Section.  Attorney Daigle developed the DLG Policy Center which provides consulting services on policy development to departments across the Country.  Attorney Daigle is General Counsel for FBI- Law Enforcement Executive Development Association and a member of their instructor cadre teaching Supervisory Liability.  He is a member of the Board of Directors for American for Effective Law Enforcement, he holds his Certified Litigation Specialist Certificate and is a member of their instructor cadre  He was the Chair of the IACP Legal Officers Section and instructs at the IACP conference.  Attorney Daigle is the Chairman of the Legal Section for the National Tactical Officers Association. He has completed the Force Science Institute Certification and Advanced Specialist training programs. He is a former member of the Connecticut State Police and now maintains his certification as a reserve officer. 

Lieutenant Kevin F. Dillon (Ret) is a twenty-five year veteran law enforcement officer, retired from the Wethersfield, CT Police Department which is a suburb of the state’s capital, Hartford, CT. Lieutenant Dillon has served as Detective Commander, Patrol Commander and training supervisor. A SWAT team member since 1993, he served for six years as a Team Leader and his last 3 years as Commander of the regional thirty-five member SWAT team. Lieutenant Dillon is a National Academy graduate of the F.B.I. session 223, (Fall 2005) and is certified by the Force Science Institute for Analysis of Use of Force Incidents and certified by the Institute of Prevention of In Custody Deaths for Use of force and Agitated States. Lieutenant Dillon is also a certified Litigation Specialist with AELE. As an instructor of use of force, communications and defensive tactics since 1988, Lieutenant Dillon has developed the internationally recognized L.O.C.K.U.P. ® Arrest and Control System. L.O.C.K.U.P. ® is a comprehensive approach, based on gross motor skill concepts, that actually reduces injuries to citizens and police officers. Lieutenant Dillon educates officers about the instinctual physiological and physical responses of the human nervous system during combat. The system is evidence based, court defendable consistent with, and based upon, the legal guidelines governing police use-of-force, and is appropriate as a system for officers, regardless of physical attributes. Lieutenant Dillon also developed the L.E.A.D.S.-Law Enforcement Active De-escalation Strategies curriculum course in 2007 which is also a nationally recognized communications program. It has been presented to officers in the states of FL, CT, RI, MA, ND, MN, MO, MI, SD, CO, AK, CA, AZ, WY TX and NM. The L.E.A.D.S. curriculum has been reviewed and approved by the United States Department of Justice. Lieutenant Dillon has appeared on CNN, NPR and other radio talk shows as a national law enforcement expert. He is an expert contributor and columnists to PoliceOne.com, Police Magazine.com and In the Line of Duty.com Lieutenant Dillon, a highly sought after speaker and trainer, has trained and consulted civilian and law enforcement use of force issues / programs throughout North America and Europe. He has presented at numerous conferences such as the International Association of Chief of Police (IACP), FBI NA Chapters / LEEDA and FBI Command College. The Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA®), Wyoming, New Mexico Sheriffs, St Louis MO and many more. Lieutenant Dillon is also founder and principal of KFD Training &Consultation LLC, www.policecombat.com, and www.diffusionstratgies.com, his company seeks to provide the highest level of professional police, security training and use of force consultation for the past 18 years.