Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice Solutions Manager

Summary

Mr. Nelson has served as the Law Enforcement Solutions Manager for ESRI since May 1998. His responsibilities include coordinating ESRI's law enforcement industry marketing activities, identifying solutions needs and acting as a liaison between ESRI and the many law enforcement, corrections and criminal justice agencies, associations and professional societies.

Mr. Nelson received a Master of Science in Management Science from California Polytechnic University in Pomona in 1995. His thesis entitled Using Geographic Information Systems in Law Enforcement by the Year 2002 further sparked his interest in GIS. In addition, Mr. Nelson received a Master of Arts in Public Administration from University of Southern California in 1977, and a Bachelor of Science in Police Science and Administration from California State University, 1974. Mr. Nelson is a graduate of the FBI National Academy (FBINA), The California POST Command College and the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (LEEDS). He holds a California Peace Officers' Standards Training Executive Certificate.

Mr. Nelson has made hundreds of presentations on GIS applications in law enforcement, criminal justice, emergency management and homeland security to groups and seminars in every state in the United States as well as throughout western and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, South America, the Mid-East, the Mediterranean, New Zealand and Australia as well as Mexico and Canada.

Primary Professional Experience

From 1993-1998, Mr. Nelson served as Chief of Police and Director of Recreation/ Housing/Senior Citizens for the 70,000 citizens of Redlands, California. This somewhat unique range of responsibility was the result of a United States Department of Justice "COPS MORE" grant to expand and improve community policing services to the community. Mr. Nelson introduced the use of geographic information systems into the Redlands Police Department resulting in applications including crime analysis, community and problem-oriented policing, beat/manpower allocation, crime trend analysis, traffic enforcement and analysis, risk-focused prevention/juvenile recreation, blight eradication/housing programs and other areas. During his tenure as Police Chief the Redlands Police Department obtained 8 grants including California Department of Justice and Office of Traffic Safety grants to utilize GIS in both crime analysis and traffic safety. Mr. Nelson has thirty years of law enforcement experience at all ranks including Field Operations; Administrative Services; Patrol; Traffic; Detectives (Robbery/Homicide/Burglary/Auto Theft/Narcotics); Special Weapons And Tactics; and Training.

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