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BIO | Sr. Vice-President, Guy Baker, Missoula PD.
MISSOULA POLICE DEPARTMENT Detective Guy Baker has been with the Missoula Police Department for twenty-one years. While assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division from 1990-1994, he became a training officer with the Field Training and Evaluation Program for new police recruits and participated in the Missoula School District’s Adopt-A-Cop Program. Baker has been a member of the S.W.A.T. team since 1995 and a P.O.S.T. certified instructor at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy since 1996. Baker has actively worked Missoula’s gang presence since its emergence in 1991. He was one of the initial officers chosen to work the Target Enforcement Unit when it began in 1994 to target the city’s growing street gang presence. The unit developed a proactive approach and maintained a ‘zero tolerance’ that resulted in over 300 charges being filed against suspected or confirmed street gang affiliates and their associates from 1995-2000. He played an integral role within the unit until he transferred to the Detective Division in 2000. Baker currently works crimes against persons, gang related investigations and is assigned to an F.B.I. Safe Streets Task Force. Baker has gained a comprehensive knowledge about street gangs during his career through continuous education and training. He has completed hundreds of hours of certified training at regional and national gang conferences and symposiums around the country. Baker has also spent a considerable amount of time working gangs with other law enforcement agencies in Spokane, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Long Beach and Los Angeles. He has provided instruction on the identification and recognition of street gangs at more than 220 presentations and training sessions for law enforcement, corrections, schools, and communities across the Northwest. A sixteen year member of the Northwest Gang Investigators Association, Baker has been on the executive board for twelve years and is the Senior Vice President. He is the Western States Gang Intelligence Network’s Northwest Regional Representative and on the executive board of the Montana Violent Crime Investigators Association. Detective Baker is also a member of the California Gang Investigators Association and the Mountain States Tactical Officers Association. |
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