Chief Jeffrey Scott (ret.) is a nationally recognized leader in public safety leadership, with over 38 years, working with small to mid-sized agencies, including his time working for the Federal government at NASA. Jeffrey remains very active, even in retirement, as an executive leadership trainer and designer, and works with various agencies in general operations, strategic planning, operational readiness, accountability, quality improvement, accreditation, and risk mitigation strategies, just to name a few. His vast knowledge base and experience has made him a widely sought expert. Jeffrey’s experience does not just stop at Law Enforcement, but he is also a seasoned veteran of the Fire, EMS, Emergency Management and education arenas, and presently serves as the EMS Chief for a small, volunteer, rural EMS agency near his hometown, leading and transforming the agency to excellence in service for their community. Jeffrey is also the former Executive Director of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, and he actively continues to use his experience and background to help law enforcement remain and be successful. Jeffrey is also the former President of the Ohio Chief’s of Police Association, and a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy, Class #265, as well as a former Board Director for the International Association of Property and Evidence.
Jeffrey was a very progressive Chief of Police, and was instrumental during his tenure, regaining public and agency level trust, implementing new community outreach initiatives, implementing new processes, policies and procedures for efficiency and accountability, new focus on best practices in evidence room management, bike patrol, strategic planning and leading the agency to accreditation.
Jeffrey is an accomplished author of many training articles in a wide variety of professional journals and publications and a former certified law enforcement trainer in Ohio and a recognized expert in many law enforcement topics, including his years as a crash reconstructionist. Jeffrey is a nationally recognized speaker on many law enforcement topics, including his stunning presentation call “Hot Topics in LE” and his new focus, training agencies on 1st Amendment and surviving the infamous “1st Amendment Audit,” and Change Management in LE.
Jeffrey is a graduate of Franklin University where he has received a bachelor’s degree in Public Safety Management and a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). Jeffrey is a Certified Law Enforcement Executive (CLEE) and a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy, Class #265, and the Ohio Police Executive Leadership College. Jeffrey is also a graduate of the MADD Leadership College and a former Board member of the Ohio Chapter, and the recipient of many honors and awards throughout his career, including a Distinguished Servant’s Award, the Heartland Hero Award and the NASA Chief’s Award for his leadership and on-scene command of a major NASA Center incident.
In his ‘spare time’ Jeffrey is a proud ‘cheer dad’ and #1 fan to his daughter, who is very active in competitive cheer and football/basketball cheer squads. He also serves as an ordained Pastor over a small rural congregation in Ohio’s Amish heartland.