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Sergeant Bruce R. Talbot retired in 2002 after 25 years of police service and has become a noted national speaker on the topic of gateway drugs. Sergeant Talbot's specialty is teaching drug and alcohol recognition classes across the country for corporations such as Alcoa, K-Mart, John Deere, WW Grainger and ACE Hardware. He has been a guest instructor at the Connecticut, Rhode Island, Indiana, Massachusetts, Idaho, and Louisiana State Police Academies and Northwestern University's prestigious Traffic Institute. Sergeant Talbot is the lead drug and alcohol instructor for Northeast Multi-Regional Training, which is responsible for police officer in-service training for the nine Chicago collar counties. He was the charter drug and alcohol instructor for the Suburban Police Academy at the College of DuPage.
Sergeant Talbot has been qualified in criminal court as an expert witness in the field of drug and alcohol impairment DUI trials in Illinois and Texas. He has twice been called to testify as an expert witness before two United States Senate Committees. His testimony has been published in the Congressional Record.
A published author in both the popular press as well as scientific research journals, Sergeant Talbot's most recent research collaboration was published in The Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Vol. 2, Number 3, 1999. His first popular press publication was in The Saturday Evening Post.
A veteran police officer, Sergeant Talbot has supervised both street patrol as well as the investigative unit, community policing unit, and the DARE drug education program. Prior to his promotion to sergeant, he was assigned to teach one of the first DARE programs in Illinois. He has received the Award of Merit and was named Police Officer of the Year, and Village Employee of the Year. The tobacco control law he wrote has been held up as a national model law by the US Department of Health and Human Services. On June 21, 2000, Sergeant Talbot was named "Police Officer of the Year" by the Illinois State Crime Commission. In 2002, Sergeant Talbot was presented with the "Aces" award from the Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.
Sergeant Talbot holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Roosevelt
University and a B.S. degree in law enforcement from Southern Illinois
University, and is a graduate of The School of Police Staff and Command at
Northwestern University.
Bruce, Peggy, and their two
children, Skip and Erin, live in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Past Presentations
2007 18th National Youth Crime Prevention Conference, Denver, CO
2006 National Underage Alcohol Enforcement Leadership Conference, Baltimore, MD
2005 National GHB and Designer Drugs Conference, Las Vegas, NV
National Sexual Violence Prevention Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Expert witness for US Senate Labor Committee and US Senate Transportation Committee.
Featured presenter for the US Surgeon General's Interagency Committee on Smoking
and Health.
Expert witness in British Columbia, Canada for parliamentary committee on tobacco control.
Panel moderator and presenter for the Center for Disease Control's Ninth National Conference on Adolescent Chronic Disease Control in Washington, D.C.
Session presenter before the American Medical Association's National Congress on Adolescent Health in Washington, D.C.
Featured speaker before the Canadian Cancer Society's National Public Issues Conference in Ottawa, Canada.
Featured televised luncheon speaker at The City Club of Cleveland, Ohio.
Seminar presenter at the National DARE Officers conference in Nashville, Tennessee and Phoenix, Arizona, and at the Wisconsin State DARE Officers Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
Seminar presenter at the National School Resource Officer's Conference in Denver, Colorado.
Featured speaker at the American Society for Industrial Security, Chicago, North Shore, and Boston Chapters.
Featured on the NBC "TODAY Show," CNN's "Talk Back Live," ABC "A Closer Look," CBS "Eye On America," and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Market Place" as well as in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Congressional Quarterly magazine.