great.

So could you just tell us a little more about what you do here at the BSU and what your position
consists of?

Well, I arrived here at BSU in January of 2006. At that point, I was an instructor. And I came in and was
focusing on crisis management and crisis communication negotiation because of my experience as a
negotiator and love of that. And also interested in global hostage taking, became interested in, kind of
moving up and got a great opportunity to become the UNIT chief, so I put in and eventually I was
selected. And since then I've been kind of reworking the BSU, expanding the programs typically. We
have been focused on violent crime. And we were the ones that developed profile in criminal
investigative analysis and term victimology and serial killer. And all that came through our National
Academy classes over the years back in the 70s, and 80s. And so what I wanted to do is unit chief and
what I'm continuing to do is move moving forward, and getting into areas like cyber and national
security threats, in addition to doing our staple violent crime mission that we've always done.

Great. So, would you mind just describing the structure of the unit and the function of the various staff
members you have here?

Sure. The behavioral science unit has been around since 1972, as part of the FBI’s training division, and
we are physically located in the basement area of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. We are one of
a number of training units here at the FBI Academy. And what our main function is here is to train our
National Academy students that come in. And the National Academy is kind of a War College for law
enforcement. It's been in existence since about 1935. At the time that this Academy was formed or built
in 1972, the National Academy program was moved over here. And what that program involves is
experienced law enforcement officers, mid-level management types that compete to come to the FBI
Academy for about 11 weeks. And when they get here, they choose whatever courses they want to take.
And if it's a behavioral science, they'll come to our unit and take our courses. If it's a leadership, they go
to leadership units. And there's also forensics and communication and other areas that they can learn.
Now, with that training, in addition to National Academy, we also teach new agents training, we teach
the FBI Intel analysts, and we take our courses and our blocks of instruction, literally worldwide, all over
the world, where we'll get requests for training from everyone. And now in addition to supporting our
traditional law enforcement clients, we also train the military, the intel community and some of our
international partners. And that's what we do. That's our bread and butter. Now, along with the
training, we also do research and we also do consultations. And our tagline or kind of the way we do
business is that if we train, we research it, and if we train that we consult it. And that's an important
model, because the consults are the things that a lot of times where we're known for, where a police
officer will call us. And he'll, let's say ask for interview strategies. Let's say he's working a gang matter,
violent crime, maybe aberrant behavior, a weird sexual type crime, and he'll call and want help. And he
may only have one shot to interview the subject. And so we try our best to give him some idea of
strategies and tactics to get the person to confess or at least make admissions based on the behavior