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Wayne D. Porter, M.S., is one of only fifty (50) sworn police-fellow profilers in the world. In 1996 he was certified by the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship and sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). Wayne’s training consisted of a three-year program which included a review of thousands of cases and over 60 specialized crime topics taught by nationally recognized experts in the field of violent crime and sexual deviancy research. Wayne’s commitment to the program included three one-month internships with the last month’s assignment to the Investigative Analysis Unit (Profiling) at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. One of the last steps in the certification process was his successful completion of an oral board examination at the FBI.
Prior to his full-time teaching and consulting on active serial rape and homicide cases, for 19 years Wayne served with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as a Special Agent assigned the duties of a Violent Crime Investigator and polygraph examiner. He currently maintains his sworn status as a Reserve Special Agent with that organization. Wayne began his law enforcement career in 1969 as a patrolman and served over 33 years as a sworn law enforcement officer with local, county, and state agencies within the state of Florida. His educational accomplishments include a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology from Florida State University and a Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Well respected within the law enforcement community as an expert in the evaluation of crime scene analysis, Wayne frequently consults on violent crime cases under investigation. Additionally, he maintains a private consulting and polygraph practice that specializes in violent crime analysis, threat analysis, polygraph examinations, and training in workplace/school violence intervention. In terms of his polygraph practice, Wayne specializes in sex offender testing as part of a Legislative mandate requiring those individuals on sex offender probation/parole to be monitored through semi-annual polygraphs. Wayne has been a polygraph examiner for the past 21 years and has conducted over 5,000 examinations, both civil and criminal, ranging from theft to homicide. Moreover, he has testified as a polygraph expert over 35 times in both State and Federal Courts.
One of the more notable assignments of Wayne’s career was the Gainesville, Florida, serial homicides where he was designated as the task force profiler. The eighteen-month investigation involved the killing of five students at the University of Florida within a 72-hour period and the triple homicide of a Shreveport, Louisiana, family. Other notable assignments include the sexual sadist serial mutilation/homicides of six Northport, Florida, males, and the investigation of the quadruple workplace homicides case in Bartow, Florida. Additionally, several of Wayne’s criminal investigative analyses of homicide cases have received national attention through television’s A&E’s Investigative Reports and Court TV.
In recognition of his expertise, Wayne has also participated in two intensive studies on school violence, joining the FBI’s Profiling Unit at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, and collaborating with nationally recognized threat analysis expert, Gavin DeBecker, in Los Angeles. Wayne's school safety and awareness presentations include the Governor’s Conference on School Safety (Las Vegas, Nevada), as well as the National School Resource Officer Conference (Orlando, Florida). Additionally, he has provided awareness training on Workplace Violence topics throughout the country, including Florida’s Cabinet members as requested by Governor Jeb Bush. Wayne’s contributions to this area of violent crime are a direct result of his criminal investigative analysis training.
Wayne Porter currently lectures to law enforcement officers and civilian personnel throughout North America. He has also presented in the Netherlands and in London, England, at The New Scotland Yard.
PUBLICATIONS
Workplace Violence in Healthcare Toolkit… A Guide to Establishing a Prevention & Training Program, with Judy Jacobs. Published by McGraw Hill Publishing.
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