BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5662-1d3885302cd1a2a717cb54086a669b2d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T055423Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T190000 SUMMARY:Career Conversations: Careers in Law Enforcement - Dr. Thomas Dover DESCRIPTION:\nAll Liberal Arts majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of profes sionals with careers in federal law enforcement. \; Please use the Z oom links below to attend: \;\n\n April 14: Gretchen Swank\, Pennsyl vania State Police (7 :00 p.m. https://psu.zoom.us/j/733760849)\n April 15: Jillian Jeffers\, US Capitol Police (7:00 p.m. https://psu.zoom.us/j /231994469)\n April 16: Dr. Thomas Dover\, FBI Behavioral Assessment Uni t (7:00 p.m. https://psu.zoom.us/j/519214949)\n\nBios:\n\nTrooper First Class Gretchen Swank is a Penn State journalism graduate who has enjoyed a nearly 20-year career with the Pennsylvania State Police. \; She has worked as a criminal investigator specializing in crimes against chi ldren\, a peer counselor for fellow troopers\, and a recruiter.\n\nLieut enant Jillian Jeffers joined the United States Capitol Police in 2005. S he has served in a variety of mission-driven roles. This includes servin g as the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement (CALEA) Accredi tation Manager for the Department. In this position she coordinated CALE A on-site assessments that led to successful re-accreditation. She also served on the First Responder Unit\, Patrol Mobile Response Division and was detailed to the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer to serve as a liaison for congressional support on policy development. Her caree r accomplishments include serving on the 58th Presidential Inaugural Tas k Force\, and working as a Police Officer Recruiter. She is currently as signed to the Training Services Bureau. In this role\, she helps to trai n and support recruits at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (F LETC) in Cheltenham\, Maryland.\n\nDr. Thomas Dover is a Crime Analyst i n the FBI&rsquo\;s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) where he provides rese arch and operational support to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC).  \;Dr. Dover is also an instructor for the FB I National Academy where he teaches a graduate course to local\, state\, federal\, tribal and international law enforcement executive on the use of behavioral analysis in decision-support. Dr. Dover began his career with the FBI in 2006 in the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP ) Unit in the NCAVC where he provided analytical assistance in a variety of violent serial crime investigations. \; In 2009\, Dr. Dover join ed the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) to manage the development of comput ational methods to automate case-linkage analysis. \; Following the completion of this project\, he remained with BSU and provided research\ , consultation\, and training in support of the BSU mission. \; In 2 014\, Dr. Dover returned to the NCAVC where he provided analytical and r esearch support to BAU-4\, which focuses on crimes against adult victims and in 2018\, he joined BAU-5 to focus on research\, training\, and pro gram management where Dr. Dover now serves as the principal investigator for the Serial Killer Collection (SKC) Project. \; Overall\, Dr. Do ver&rsquo\;s current research focuses on modeling criminal behavior as a complex adaptive system\, case-linkage analysis\, offender decision-mak ing\, operational applications of computational criminology\, identifyin g and reducing analytical and investigative bias\, and developing method s to structure and automate case analysis \;techniques. He has publi shed on a variety of topics to include the development of a unified theo ry of offender interaction\, murder\, sexual assault\, insider threat mo deling\, computational criminology\, emerging technologies\, and crimina l justice education.  \; \;Dr. Dover earned his Ph.D. in Computa tional Social Science at the Center for Social Complexity at George Maso n University in Fairfax\, Virginia. \; \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/career_conversations_care ers_in_law_enforcement_-_dr_thomas_dover/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

All Liberal Art s majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of professionals with careers in feder al law enforcement.  Please use the Zoom links below to attend:&nbs p;

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Trooper First Class Gretchen Swank is a Penn State journalism graduate who has enjoyed a nearly 20-year career with the Pe nnsylvania State Police.  She has worked as a criminal investigator specializing in crimes against children, a peer counselor for fellow tr oopers, and a recruiter.

Lieutenant Jillian Jeffers joined the United States Capitol Police in 2005. She has served in a variety of mission-driven roles. This includes serving as the Commission on Accred itation for Law Enforcement (CALEA) Accreditation Manager for the Depart ment. In this position she coordinated CALEA on-site assessments that le d to successful re-accreditation. She also served on the First Responder Unit, Patrol Mobile Response Division and was detailed to the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer to serve as a liaison for congressiona l support on policy development. Her career accomplishments include serv ing on the 58th Presidential Inaugural Task Force, and working as a Poli ce Officer Recruiter. She is currently assigned to the Training Services Bureau. In this role, she helps to train and support recruits at the Fe deral Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Cheltenham, Maryland.

Dr. Thomas Dover is a Crime Analyst in the FBI’s Behav ioral Analysis Unit (BAU) where he provides research and operational sup port to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). & nbsp;Dr. Dover is also an instructor for the FBI National Academy where he teaches a graduate course to local, state, federal, tribal and intern ational law enforcement executive on the use of behavioral analysis in d ecision-support. Dr. Dover began his career with the FBI in 2006 in the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) Unit in the NCAVC where he provided analytical assistance in a variety of violent serial crime inv estigations.  In 2009, Dr. Dover joined the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) to manage the development of computational methods to automate ca se-linkage analysis.  Following the completion of this project, he remained with BSU and provided research, consultation, and training in s upport of the BSU mission.  In 2014, Dr. Dover returned to the NCAV C where he provided analytical and research support to BAU-4, which focu ses on crimes against adult victims and in 2018, he joined BAU-5 to focu s on research, training, and program management where Dr. Dover now serv es as the principal investigator for the Serial Killer Collection (SKC) Project.  Overall, Dr. Dover’s current research focuses on mo deling criminal behavior as a complex adaptive system, case-linkage anal ysis, offender decision-making, operational applications of computationa l criminology, identifying and reducing analytical and investigative bia s, and developing methods to structure and automate case analysis t echniques. He has published on a variety of topics to include the develo pment of a unified theory of offender interaction, murder, sexual assaul t, insider threat modeling, computational criminology, emerging technolo gies, and criminal justice education.   Dr. Dover earned his P h.D. in Computational Social Science at the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. 

 

 

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