Douglas A. Blake
Law Enforcement Professional and Police Captain
Specialties & Interests
EDUCATION
I believe that training, learning, and education establish sound behavior and enhance trust, through competency, with the community. I have been a department trainer since 2005, creating an innovative and progressive training culture for my agency. I oversee internal and external department training and advance our policy through sound, evidence-based policing principles.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
I studied mass shootings and the media contagion effect. Professional experience includes use of force, SWAT tactics, and training.
media and disinformation
My research focuses on the connection between government/police agencies and news media outlets. I manage our public affairs unit overseeing press interactions and our social media presence. Law enforcement’s ability to interact professionally with news media outlets and be actively involved with informing the public is at the heart of transparency and trust.
ABOUT
I am a municipal police professional from California. I began my career in law enforcement in 2001 at the Sacramento Police Department as a Community Services Officer and was hired by the Roseville Police Department in 2003. I have worked in assignments such as patrol, field training, investigations, gangs, internal affairs, recruitment, SWAT, and as a department trainer. I worked in our Professional Standards Unit as the lieutenant overseeing recruitment, backgrounds, policy, and internal affairs investigations. I was one of our sniper team leaders, the tactical commander, and the Special Operations Unit Commander responsible for EOD, HNT, UAS, and our containment team.
I am our agency’s resident use of force expert and have a tremendous passion for training police professionals in all areas of our work. I have served as the Division Captain for every division of our agency: Operations, Investigations, and now, Community Services. Our Community Services Division includes Finance, Motors/Traffic, Public Affairs, Professional Standards (PSU), Animal Control, Social Services Unit, and Youth Services (SRO detail).
I am particularly interested in the science of learning, memory, and skill acquisition as it pertains to training police officers in stressful and non-stressful police practices. I have developed a novel training framework and put it to use in our agency challenging the conventional “block and silo” type of competency work. My passion and service to the community is a commitment to deliver the most professional and skillful interaction that victims, suspects, and community members should expect from the police.
CHDS AFFILIATION
- Master’s in Security Studies, CHDS, Naval Postgraduate School
Douglas A. Blake's thesis
Killing the Limelight: Addressing the Contagion and Copycat Effect After a Mass Shooting
My passion and service to the community is a commitment to deliver the most professional and skillful interaction that victims, suspects, and community members should expect from the police.
– Douglas Blake