Corporal Geoffrey Bush is currently assigned as a full-time Instructor at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy in Hershey Pa. He is the department lead EVOC instructor and is also a certified Taser, use of force, and officer safety instructor. He is also a certified instructor through the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers Training Commission. Cpl. Bush has over 20 years of law enforcement experience including 2 years as a municipal police officer in Pennsylvania, 7 years as a Trooper with the Virginia State Police, and 11 years with the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). In addition to his current position, in his career, he has worked in Patrol, Investigations, participated and supervised narcotics task forces, and participated in City/State Aggressive Patrol Partnership task forces. He is a graduate in Criminology from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Cpl. Bush initiated and played an integral part in revamping the EVOC program and curriculum for the PSP, including preparing a 200-page comprehensive driver training manual. He introduced the Below 100 program to the PSP and has trained over 700 members in the Department. He is a Master EVOC instructor and is responsible for training other EVOC instructors throughout the state of Pennsylvania. He is a nationally certified EVOC and Precision Immobilization Technique Instructor through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Cpl. Bush is a member of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and the International Association of Law Enforcement Emergency Response Trainers (ALERT). He received the ALERT Zman award in 2015 and is a 2016 outstanding nominee for the IACP State and Provincial Police Academy Directors Instructor of the year.

Melissa Cicio is currently a Sergeant with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. She has been with CMPD for 14 years. She has worked as a Patrol Officer, a Detective with the Gang Enforcement Unit, the Lead Driving Instructor for the CMPD Training Academy, and back to Patrol as a Sergeant. Melissa currently serves as a Subject Matter Expert for Basic Law Enforcement Training, LE Driver Training for the North Carolina Justice Academy. Melissa currently teaches Law Enforcement Driver Training, Crowd Management, Communication Skills for Law Enforcement, Patrol Techniques, and Techniques of Traffic Enforcement in the BLET curriculum for North Carolina. She is also a Def Tech munitions instructor. Melissa has a passion for developing training that directly impacts vehicle operation and officer safety both inside and outside of their patrol vehicle.

Deputy Shannon Lofland has served as a deputy sheriff with Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office for 21 years. During that time, she has filled many roles, with her most recent and long term assignment as a Training Coordinator in the Training Unit for the past 8 years.

Shannon has been an EVOC instructor for 17 years and is the lead driving instructor for ACSO and the Arapahoe County Basic Academy since 2008 and she conducts one of the only train-the- trainer courses for law enforcement driving instructors in the state of Colorado.

Shannon is the lead Traffic Incident Management (TIMs) instructor and in 2018 she was awarded by the State of Colorado and the Colorado Department of Transportation for her role in training and certifying 300+ patrol deputies in her agency in the use of TIMS.

She is a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Law Enforcement Advanced Driver Instructor Training Program.

In 2017 she was given the opportunity to design a state certified course at the new world class “Code 303 Driving Track” in Douglas County Colorado, which is utilized by numerous public safety agencies and private entities.

Shannon has had the opportunity to instruct nationally. She was appointed as the Vice Chair of the Colorado Peace Officer’s and Standards Training (POST) Subject Matter Expert (SME) Committee in 2014. She is currently of member of the Colorado POST Board and serves as the driving SME liaison to the POST Board.

Shannon became a member of A.L.E.R.T. in 2017, and was recipient of the “Z-Man” Award winner in 2021.

Mike Brady has worked for the Lake Oswego Police

Department (OR.) since 1993. He has been the department training officer for the past seventeen years, he manages and is the lead instructor for EVO, PIT, Skid Car, firearms, less-lethal, use of force, patrol tactics, vehicle stops, TASER, active threat, FTEP… and received the departments Officer of the Year award. Mike has previously served on the ALERT International executive board for six years and named their “Z-Man” Award winner. He has instructed for local, state and federal agencies; was a national train-the-trainer instructor for the Pursuit Policy Workshops; and has presented at regional, national and international conferences. Mike has been a driving instructor since 1996, became an ALERT member in 1998 and hosted the annual training conference in 2018. He is the current Region 1 Representative.

Albert Liebno, Jr. is the former Executive Director of the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions (Maryland’s POST Agency) in Sykesville, Maryland. Al is a charter member of ALERT International, held the Association’s President position from 2013-2017 and hosted the 2011 National Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. He began his law enforcement career in 1974 with the Maryland State Police and was most noted for his 18 years of overseeing that Department’s EVO program. In 1985 Mr. Liebno developed, received approval and implemented MSP’s first “formalized” EVOC program in the Department’s history. In 2001 Al retired from the Maryland State Police with 28 years of service. Immediately following his retirement he continued his passion for EVOC training in the position of Administrator for Maryland’s new Public Safety Education and Training Center’s statewide Driver Training Facility. Then in 2007 he was promoted to the position of Skills Training Administrator with the responsibility of supervising, directing and integrating all “skills” related training for the MPCTC providing all types of practical skills training for police and correctional officers from Maryland’s 160 police and 33 correctional agencies.

Al has also provided vehicle operations training to civilian students as a Driver’s Education Instructor for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration new driver program. He also works with the seven High School administrators in his county of residence educating parents and Jr/Sr students in developing proper skills to handle unexpected emergencies while driving on the highways.