Pete Ebel is an 18-year law enforcement veteran with a wide variety of tactical, investigative, supervisory and instructor experience. He currently works for the Lake Worth Police Department, a 91-officer agency in Palm Beach County, Florida.

Ebel is the commander of his department’s SWAT team, Tactical Patrol Force (street crime enforcement), K-9 Unit and Special Investigations Unit (vice, narcotics and gang enforcement). He has served as a patrol officer, field-training officer, tactical patrol force officer, detective, road patrol sergeant, training sergeant, SWAT team leader, and patrol watch commander.

Ebel recently instructed at the 2007 International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) conference in Chicago, which was attended by more than 750 law enforcement trainers from all over the world. He was also a presenter at the 2003 Florida Department of Law Enforcement High Liability Trainer’s Conference, which was attended by more than 600 professional law enforcement trainers from the State of Florida and elsewhere.

Ebel is an adjunct instructor with the Palm Beach Community College Criminal Justice Institute, from which he graduated as president of his law enforcement academy class in 1989. Ebel holds instructor certifications in use of force; firearms; survival pistol; officer survival; specialty impact munitions; less lethal; oleoresin capsicum aerosol; police baton, Taser and Pepper ball. Ebel’s other law enforcement training includes more than 2,000 hours of supervision, leadership, investigations, and community policing, to name a few.

He instructs a variety of high-liability subjects at his Department, including firearms, use of force, officer survival, and rapid deployment techniques for patrol officers, report writing, traffic stop tactics, mental illness, excited delirium/cocaine psychosis, domestic violence, and juvenile sexual offender. He has also conducted in-house review of deadly force incidents and has served as an expert witness in a use-of-force case.

Ebel has in excess of 50 letters of commendation. He has been decorated with his Department’s life-saving, meritorious service, officer of the year and chief’s achievement awards, among others.

Ebel is a member of the National Tactical Officers Association, the Florida SWAT Association, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, and the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Association. He is a graduate of the Criminal Justice Executive Leadership Program at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Advanced Criminal Justice Studies.