PPSC Staff Profile Cmdr. Sid Heal (Ret.)
Sid has earned three college degrees and is a graduate of the California Peace Officer's Standards and Training, Center for Leadership Development, Command College, and the FBI National Academy. He is the author of Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer, and An Illustrated Guide to Tactical Diagramming, as well as more than 120 articles on law enforcement issues and has appeared on numerous television newscasts and documentaries and been quoted in many periodicals and newspapers. Additionally, he has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences in Canada, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Israel, Brazil and Argentina, as well as throughout the United States.
In addition to his career in law enforcement, Sid recently retired from the Marine Corps Reserve after 35 years, with service in more than 20 countries and four combat tours. As a result of both these careers, he has been personally present for the operations involving the 1992 coup d'état in Thailand, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, as well as the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001 and a host of other disasters, natural and manmade.
Cmdr. Heal has recently teamed-up with PPSC to begin offering the most comprehensive and authoritative course of its kind; Use of Force Management™. If your agency is interested in hosting this invaluable program, please feel free to contact us .
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Charles "Sid" Heal is a
retired Commander from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department with nearly 33
years of service in law enforcement, nearly half of which has been spent in
units charged with handling law enforcement special and emergency
operations. At various times during his career he has served as an