Schweizer,Harald Otto,
Ph.D.
Professor
of Criminology
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Dr. Harald Otto Schweizer - B.S. in Criminal Justice (State University College of New York-Buffalo), M.P.A. (University of Arizona), Ph.D. in Criminal Justice (Sam Houston State University) 1990. Extensive Law Enforcement experience in the United States as a Deputy Sheriff, Police Officer, Field Training Officer, Detective, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Chief of Police. Worked in his native Germany as a criminal investigator of major crimes and terrorist activities. Served in an undercover capacity investigating international narcotics trafficking & international organized crime (also in Germany). Additional experience includes that of a county correctional/detention officer, and as a research assistant with the Tucson Police Department.
Dr. Schweizer is also a police consultant and has been an expert witness in federal court in the area of police administration and police misconduct. His research interests are in international criminal justice and policing, to include international criminal laws and minimum hiring and training standards for police officers, community policing, transnational crime and international terrorism. Dr. Schweizer has lectured at Police Academies and academic institutions in Finland, Germany, South Africa, Japan, and Slovenia. He is published in Singapore, Poland, Japan, Slovenia, and the United States. Dr. Schweizer has presented research at international conferences and also in some of his publications, on diverse subjects such as Female Suicide Bombers, Financial Crimes, International Organized Crime, Islamic Terrorist Groups, the Use of the Internet by Criminal Justice Organizations World-Wide, Problems in Selecting and Hiring Police Applicants, Family Violence and Violence against Women in Latin America, NSA monitoring and private open source databases, drug legalisation, suicide by cop, and his current focus is video surveillance and social media monitoring in criminal investigations, and radical Islam since 1850. In spring 2006 Dr. Schweizer was selected as an academic fellow by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). As part of the fellowship Dr. Schweizer visited various security/military related installations in Israel during the summer of 2006, and attended briefings by government experts on terrorism and the Middle East. Part of the visit included a meeting with representatives of Hamas and Fatah incarcerated in a high security prison facility. In July 2006 Dr. Schweizer gave a 6 hour presentation on Islamic Terrorism to government officials and others, at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The presentation was sponsored by the Bund deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) and the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University.
In June 2008, Dr. Schweizer gave a three hour presentation on American policing and also on international terrorism at the police headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a member of the Karlsruhe Chapter of the International Police Association and publishes a monthly newsletter in German that is sponsored by that chapter. https://www.ipa-karlsruhe.de/ Dr. Schweizer was again invited by the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) and gave a presentation on the NSA and American attitudes towards that agency, at a police conference in Berlin on 27 January 2014, and on drug legalisation at a professional BdK meeting in Leipzig on 11 September 2014. Dr. Schweizer also held an inservice training session on "Suicide by Cop" at the Karlsruhe, Germany police headquarters training facility in July 2014. In May 2015 Dr. Schweizer was appointed as a board member of the German "Bund deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BdK)" which represents German police investigators at all ranks and advises the national government on laws and operational decisions regarding police. To inform the board on relevant issues affecting law enforcement, Dr. Schweizer presented research and practices in screening law enforcement officers and applicants in Latin and North America, incuding the use of integrity tests, polygraph exams and enhanced personnel investigations. He also described new and innovative methods and services for monitoring and evaluating social media, world wide websites, and information from the dark and deep web with multilingual capabilities, which can be used effectively in identifying terrorist and organized criminal organizations and their operational plans. |
Last Updated 22 May 2016
Write Dr. Schweizer at: haralds@csufresno.edu