Global Training Institute’s instructors are specialists who have vast experience and are actively working in the disciplines they are instructing. Our trainers are professional and experienced lecturers who make their classes educational, interesting and entertaining.
DEREK PACIFICO - Founder & President
(Interview & Interrogation, Customer Relations & Conflict Resolution, Self Defense Courses, Leadership & Ethics, Homicide Investigator’s School Coordinator)
Derek is a dynamic, energetic and interactive public speaker who has been continuously instructing peace officers and the general public since 1993. He began his law enforcement career in 1990 as a Deputy Sheriff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and was promoted to Detective in 1998. He was in the Homicide Detail from 1999 through 2005 working over 130 murders, officer involved shootings and other suspicious deaths before being promoted to his current rank of Sergeant.
Shortly after his arrival in the Homicide Detail, Derek was asked to take over as his departments lead Interview and Interrogation Instructor. He also wrote and implemented the department’s first ever and highly successful, 80-hour Homicide School. Both of these classes maintain such a high reputation that departments statewide seek them out to train their personnel.
During his patrol years, Derek studied at the Ten-Chi Dojo in the martial art of Aikido. The techniques of Aikido are right in line with the goal of law enforcement and the use of force pyramid. Aikido uses only that force which is necessary based on the level of violence perpetrated by the subject’s attack. He studied nearly every night and special sessions on weekends to hone his skills and become an assistant instructor at the dojo. A couple of years after he began his training, he earned his black belt and started training officers in Police Aikido.
Awards & Certificates
He earned the National Sheriff’s Association award for his “Exemplary Leadership”, the “Employee of the Year” award, the Sheriff’s “Award of Distinguished Service”, the “Silent Hero Award” from the Chamber of Commerce and a proclamation from the Town of Apple Valley for his service to the community. He teaches or lectures to citizen groups of all types and is on the regular speaker list of the Retired Military Officers clubs in Southern California.
DENNIS FLORENCE – (Leadership and Ethics)
Dennis Florence is a retired Master Chief Petty Officer from the United States Coast Guard. He has led, supervised and trained hundreds of individuals in his 35 years of collective public service. Dennis was selected to command a Coast Guard Cutter in 1982 and his last assignment in the Coast Guard was as the Command Enlisted Advisor of the Eleventh Coast Guard District where he represented all of the enlisted Coast Guard personnel to the Admiral and Chief of Staff. Dennis took advantage of a number of courses and training offered by the military in Maritime Law Enforcement, Drug Interdiction, Leadership and Management. His leadership earned him fast promotions and the command of a Coast Guard Cutter at the age of 32.
Dennis started his second career in 1990 as a Deputy Sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He has served as a Patrol and Traffic Enforcement Officer, Shift Watch Commander, Jail Correctional Training Officer and Sex Crimes Investigator. He is now a senior investigator assigned to the Specialized Investigations Division as a Homicide Investigator.
Awards & Certificates
Regional Criminal Justice Training Center – Modesto Junior College
120 hour course in US Coast Guard Maritime Law Enforcement
Fall Semester 1980
US Coast Guard – Petaluma, California
Leadership and Management Schools Award
October 1981
The United States of America - President of the United States
US Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal presented by
Admiral J.S. Gracey, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant
For the years 1982 through 1984
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
80 Hour Field Training Officer course
March 1997
DEBBIE HARRIS – Forensic and Crime Scene Lead Instructor
Debbie received her Bachelors Degree in Anthropology from the University of Southern California in 1979. From 1979 to 1994, she was a Paleontologist and Archaeologist for the San Bernardino County Museum. In 1992, she began volunteering in photography, evidence collection, and other forensic disciplines, with the San Bernardino County Sheriff Department’s, Barstow Station. She remained a volunteer until 1996 when she was hired full-time with the Sheriff Department’s Crime Lab, where she remains today.
Debbie is a highly trained crime scene investigator who has received hundreds of classroom hours of training and thousands of hours of on the job experience. Debbie developed, wrote and implemented the CSI training program for the Sheriff’s Crime Lab. Her training program has received high praise by agencies such as the U.S. Secret Service and the California Department of Justice. Her program has been used as a training model for several law enforcement departments around the country. She is a peer trainer and a division, departmental and regional instructor in the following areas of expertise: Recognition, collection, and documentation of all types of evidence including; Trace evidence, Blood and other Physiological evidence, Firearms and Toolmark evidence, Impression evidence, Post-Blast evidence, and Arson evidence; Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation; Gunshot Trajectory Reconstruction; Latent fingerprint development and collection; Crime Scene Photography; and Crime Scene Documentation.
She maintains daily experience with the latest crime scene investigation tools and technology. Debbie utilizes and trains in the use of (the): Electro Static Dust Lifter, Casting Equipment, LASER/Alternative Light Source, Trace Evidence Vacuum, all varieties of fingerprinting and lifting chemicals, powders and procedures, firearms and gunshot residue examinations and dozens of other procedures too numerous to list.
Debbie’s education, training and experience are an asset to the Global Training Institute and her training will be an asset to your organization.
Awards & Certificates
International Association for Identification Certified Crime Scene Analyst
International Association for Identification Certified Bloodstain Pattern Analyst
Desert Rescue Squad – Barstow Sheriff’s Station
Certificate of Appreciation for numerous years of volunteer training at “SAR City” Search and Rescue Training conference