Sunday, January 30, 2011

Rick Staples Resume


 

Charles R. “Rick” Staples

                                   

SUMMARY QUALIFICATIONS


Over 35 years professional experience as patrol officer and investigator with mid-sized midwestern city with additional duties as firearms and tactical team instructor in multiple weapon systems; articulate, innovative, results-oriented leader whose specific skills include:

Range safety                                                                    Classroom and communication     
Weapons, accessories, ammunition evaluations             Course-of-fire design
Planning and organization                                               Computer presentation 
    

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


Overland Park, Kansas, Police Department                                                            1973 – 2009
Senior Patrol Officer Academy instructor / retired

As a multi-faceted officer, in addition to regular duties as a patrol officer, served as precision rifleman and entry team member on the SWAT team.  Functioned as lead instructor for the department firearms training unit from 1977 to 2005.  Served on the Fugitive Apprehension Unit. 

·      Authored and implemented department-wide transitional training from revolver to semi-auto pistol, instructing 250 officers over 5,000 hours of classroom and range instruction.
·      Authored department-wide transition program from Beretta pistol to Glock pistol.
·      Developed transition training from pump shotgun to semi-auto shotgun, implemented with department-wide classroom and range training.
·      Developed and implemented the patrol rifle program
·      Wrote and maintained the department’s basic pistol instructors manual. Wrote and instructed a two week firearms instructor program.
·      Wrote the less-lethal munitions program.
·      Authored and instructed Regional Police Academy core topics.
·      Tested and evaluated weapons, equipment and tactics for the Overland Park Police Department

Independent Instructor


Kansas City Metro Tactical Officer Association                                                            1994 – 2002
Tactical Shotgun Instructor
Chapman Academy Adjunct Instructor                                                                        1982
            Tactical Shotgun
Johnson County Community College            Police Academy Instructor                     1977 – 2009
Thunder Ranch Adjunct Instructor                                                                                2001 – Present
            Level 1 and 2 Handgun, Urban rifle, Team Tactics, Old Rifle
           

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NRA patrol rifle instructor school                                                                                  June 04           

Self-Defense Handgun II, CRTC (Bennie Cooley), Overland Park, KS                        Jan 99
Hornady Tactical Carbine School, Hastings, NE                                                          Jun 98
Thunder Ranch, Inc., Mountain Home, TX
            Team Tactics                                                                                                     Jun 02
            Old Rifle                                                                                                            Apr 02
            Urban Rifle II                                                                                                     Sep 01
            High Intensity Tactical                                                                                       Jul 00
            General Purpose Rifle                                                                                      Sep 99
            Defensive Shotgun                                                                                           Apr 98
            Home/Vehicle Defense                                                                                     Aug 97
            Defensive Pistol I                                                                                             Aug 95
            Urban Rifle                                                                                                       Jul 93
Defensive Shotgun, Gunsite Academy, Paulden, AZ                                                   Jun 91
Officer Survival School, Chapman Academy, Hallsville, MO                                       Oct 89
I.A.L.E.F.I. Annual Training Conferences                                                                    87, 90, 92, 95, 96, 99, 05
F.B.I. Schools
            Submachinegun Instructor School                                                                   Jun 97
            Rangemaster Training Course                                                                         Mar 96
            Advanced Sniper School                                                                                  Aug 92
            Firearms Instructor School                                                                               Jun 88
            Firearms Instructor School                                                                               Oct 77
Calibre Press Street Survival Seminars                                                                      Jul 84, Aug 82
            Remington Wingshooting School, Bloomington, IL                                          Oct 96
Advanced Law Enforcement Training Camp, Action Target
            Provo, Utah                                                                                                      Jun 01
Columbia, MO                                                                                                 May 94
Advanced SWAT School, I.A.C.P., Lenexa, KS                                                            May 92
Anti-Terrorism Seminar, Illinois State Police, Springfield, IL                                         Dec 78
Armorers Schools
            Heckler & Koch – G36                                                                                      Jul 02
            Beretta Pistol                                                                                                    Jan 94
            Mossberg Shotgun                                                                                           Apr 91
            Glock Pistol                                                                                                      May 87/99/0109

                                                                                                                                              

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS                         1973
           

ORGANIZATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

Kansas City Metro Tactical Officers Association
International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors
Kansas Peace Officers Association
National Rifle Association Life member
International Defensive Pistol Association
National Skeet Shooting Association