DOLAN CONSULTING GROUP - Key Persons


Brian McEwen

Job Titles:
  • Sergeant, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, in
For 5 years, Sergeant McEwen was assigned to the Professional Standards Branch, starting off in Internal Affairs and then becoming the departments Performance Standards Manager and Accreditation Manager, where he was responsible for ensuring accountability and compliance with department standards and policies, monitoring citizen's complaints, formal discipline, and the agency's performance appraisal system. Additionally, Sergeant McEwen lead the Office of Planning and Research, where his responsibilities included managing the departments written directive system and ensuring IMPD maintained CALEA (Commission of Accreditation Law Enforcement Agencies™) national accreditation. Finally, Sergeant McEwen was responsible for creating the department's electronic special field reporting system, was instrumental in the creation and administration of the department's new disciplinary matrix system, and early intervention program. Sergeant McEwen now applies the principles and systems he helped develop as a uniformed patrol supervisor.

Brian Nanavaty

Job Titles:
  • Captain, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, in
Captain Brian Nanavaty retired in 2017 after 33 years with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department (IMPD) where in 2010 he created the IMPD Office of Professional Development and Wellness (OPDW) and served as Professional Performance Manager. His innovative programs created a culture of health at IMPD and a reduction of officer disciplinary referrals by 40%. During his career and in retirement Nanavaty continues to instruct officers, executives, union officials, insurance providers and clinicians in the areas of personal and career survival for the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, Safe Call Now, the Dolan Consulting Group and at major conferences including IACP, ILEETA, IADLEST, NOBLE, FOP and EAPA conferences. Nanavaty was a headline presenter at the 2017 National Crime Summit and has been featured on Police One.com and in Law and Order magazine and the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. Nanavaty currently serves on the FBINAA and Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Safety and Wellness Committees where he assisted in the legislation for the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (2018). As part of his committee duties he has also designed a training portal for members and vets treatment and recovery facilities for first responders. Nanavaty additionally serves on the Executive Board of the National Institute for Public Safety Health, is a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management working group for the IACP Policy Center and is a consultant with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) on officer wellness issues. In 2015, Nanavaty and IMPD received the inaugural Destination Zero Valor Award from the DOJ and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) for his officer and agency wellness programs and in 2016, in addition to appearing in front of the US Congress on the issue of officer wellness, Nanavaty was a finalist for the prestigious International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Officer of the Year award. In 2016, the White House sent US Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Indianapolis as part of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing where Lynch stated "Captain Nanavaty's officer and agency wellness program in Indianapolis should be the model for law enforcement across the US." In 2016, Nanavaty and IMPD were awarded the BJA/COPS Microgrant for Officer Safety and Wellness and were represented in the BJA/COPS Officer Safety and Wellness Group and chronicled in the BJA/COPS Improving Law Enforcement Resilience publication October 2016. In 2019, Nanavaty's groundbreaking work at IMPD was part of the 11 successful agency case studies summarized in the DOJ's Report to Congress (March 2019). Captain Nanavaty attended Franklin College (IN), Drew University (NJ), and the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of the 255th Session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico VA. From 1994-2003 he was Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana and Purdue Universities.

Captain Everett C. Babcock

Captain Everett C. Babcock is in his 34th year as a law enforcement officer. His career started in 1988 for a small agency in Sayre Oklahoma where he worked as both an officer and an investigator before taking a position in 1992 as an Investigator for the District Attorney's Office in Oklahoma's 2nd Judicial District, where he was assigned to the District 2 Drug Task Force which investigated major narcotic offenses throughout western Oklahoma. In 1995 Captain Babcock moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he took a job with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. Captain Babcock served as a patrol officer and field training officer before transferring to investigations in 1998 where he was assigned as a detective and unit training officer. In 2013 Captain Babcock was promoted to sergeant. After serving a short time back in patrol, he returned to investigations, assigned to homicide, the generalist squad and the assault squad. In 2018 Captain Babcock was promoted again to his current rank of Captain. After serving about a year-and-a-half back in patrol, Captain Babcock once again returned to investigations, serving as Captain over the Property Crimes Division and in his current assignment as Captain over the Homicide Unit. The majority of Captain Babcock's time assigned to investigations as both a detective and a sergeant was spent assigned to the homicide unit. Captain Babcock also spent three years as the supervisor of the department's Police Shooting Team. Captain Babcock's homicide cases have been showcased on the television shows America's Most Wanted, The First 48, American Gangster, Fatal Attraction and the Unexpected Killer. Captain Babcock holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration Law Enforcement (Summa Cum Laude) from Park University and a Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. Captain Babcock is a certified Basic Instructor and Defensive Tactics Instructor through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, and holds a Generalist Instructor License from the State of Missouri Department of Public Safety. Captain Babcock is a member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association the International Law Enforcement Trainers Association and the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #102. Captain Babcock has been teaching law enforcement since 2012, and he has taught several classes for the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, including building and teaching their bi-annual Detective Academy. Captain Babcock also teaches at the Missouri Highway Patrol's Detective Academy. Since 2017, Captain Babcock has been teaching for the Dolan Consulting Group, teaching officers in classes all over the United States in the topics of New Detective Training, Homicide Investigations, Interviews and Interrogations and Reforming Your Agency's Lineup Procedures.

David W. Linthicum

Job Titles:
  • Captain Raleigh Police Department ( Ret. )
David W. Linthicum is a 26-year police veteran who retired from the Raleigh Police Department at the rank of captain. During his career he served in patrol, investigations, administration, and in the bomb squad. As a leader, he served as a patrol sergeant, detective sergeant, watch commander, district commander, and commander of special operations division.

Dr. Jack Enter

Jack Enter has been associated with the field of criminal justice since 1972 when he began his career as a law enforcement officer. Since that time, he has worked as a street police officer, detective, vice/narcotics investigator, and as the administrator of a law enforcement agency in the suburbs of Atlanta. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 and has served as a professor and administrator in the university setting and served as Director of Information and Education for the Governor's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. He was also one of the research associates assigned to the planning of the security component of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has lectured throughout the United States and abroad to such groups as the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Great Britain's New Scotland Yard, and the Moscow Police Command College. He recently published his first book: Challenging the Law Enforcement Organization: Proactive Leadership Strategies. He lives in Auburn, Georgia, with his wife Barbara. They have two sons and one daughter as well as five grandchildren.

Dr. Kevin Gilmartin

Job Titles:
  • Attorney
  • Behavioral Scientist
Dr. Gilmartin is a behavioral scientist specializing in law enforcement related issues. He is a principal and co-founder of Gilmartin, Harris, and Associates, a behavioral sciences/management consulting company specializing in law enforcement/public safety consultation. Dr. Gilmartin previously spent twenty years working in law enforcement in Tucson, Arizona. During his tenure he supervised the Hostage Negotiations Team and the Behavioral Sciences Unit. He is a former recipient of the International Association of Chiefs of Police-Parade Magazine, National Police Officer Citation Award for contributions during hostage negotiations. He presently maintains a consulting relationship with public safety and law enforcement agencies nationally in the U.S. and in Canada. He is guest instructor at the FBI Academy's Law Enforcement Executive Development Institute (LEEDS and EDI). He is an adjunct instructor at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the University of Massachusetts Police Leadership Institute, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, and Sam Houston State University's Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas. He is retained as a consultant to several Federal agency national critical incident response teams. He is a charter member of the IACP-Psychological Services Section and former vice-president of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. The Department of Justice, FBI, and International Association of Chiefs of Police have published his work. He holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona and is a licensed psychologist in the State of Arizona. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and resides in Tucson, Arizona and Salem, Oregon.

Harry P. Dolan

Job Titles:
  • Chief
  • Chief of Police ( Ret. )
Harry P. Dolan is a 32-year police veteran who served as a Chief of Police since 1987. As one of the nation's most experienced police chiefs, he brings 25 years of public safety executive experience to Dolan Consulting Group. He retired in October 2012 as Chief of Police of the Raleigh (N.C.) Police Department, an agency comprised of nearly 900 employees in America's 42 nd largest city. Chief Dolan began his law enforcement career in 1980 as a deputy sheriff in Asheville, North Carolina and served there until early 1982, when he joined the Raleigh Police Department, where he served as a patrol officer. In 1987, he was appointed Chief of Police for the N.C. Department of Human Resources Police Department, located in Black Mountain. He served as Chief of Police in Lumberton, N.C. from 1992 until 1998, when he became Chief of Police of the Grand Rapids, Michigan Police Department. He served in that capacity for nearly ten years before becoming Chief of the Raleigh Police Department in September 2007. As Chief, he raised the bar at every organization and left each in a better position to both achieve and sustain success. Harry Dolan has lectured throughout the United States and has trained thousands of public safety professionals in the fields of Leadership & Management, Communications Skills, and Community Policing. Past participants have consistently described Chief Dolan's presentations as career changing, characterized by his sense of humor and unique ability to maintain participants' interest throughout his training sessions. Chief Dolan's demonstrated ability to connect with his clientele and deliver insightful instruction all with uncompromising principles will be of tremendous value in the private sector. Chief Dolan's passion to achieve service-excellence is a driving force behind Dolan Consulting Group. He is a graduate of Western Carolina University and holds a Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership and Management from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Kenneth Dugger

Job Titles:
  • Chief Kenneth Dugger ( Ret. )
Chief Dugger's background includes over 35 years of law enforcement experience, 26 years as a supervisor or manager, retiring as a Chief from both the Broward County, and Monroe County, Florida Sheriff's Offices. Mr. Dugger has been a member of the Broward Sheriff's Office Field Force since 1992 and was the Training and Logistics Commander for the Broward Sheriff Office Field Force, a position he held for 11 years until his retirement. Chief Dugger designed numerous training courses, field exercises and curriculum processes for field force mobilization, deployment, and sustainment and demobilization events. In Monroe County, Chief Dugger was the Law Enforcement Bureau Chief and developed, trained and equipped the Sheriff's Office Rapid Deployment Force. Chief Dugger has been involved in several hurricane recovery responses since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. He was the field commander for the Broward Sheriff's Office Field Force assigned to storm ravaged Wauchula (Hardee County), Florida, after Hurricane Charlie in 2004. In the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) in 2005, BSO Field Forces were again mobilized to assist in recovery efforts. Mr. Dugger has also co- commanded Broward Sheriff's Office Field Forces during two Level 1 National Security Events, including the 2003 Fair Trade Area of the Americas protests in Miami, Florida, and the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of American States protests in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Lisa Mayhew

Job Titles:
  • Child Death Investigator
For the past 17 years, Lisa Mayhew has served as the Child Death Investigator and

Michael Burton

Job Titles:
  • Training Coordinator for the New Braunfels ( TX ) Police Department
  • Training Coordinator, New Braunfels ( TX ) Police Dept
Michael Burton is the Training Coordinator for the New Braunfels (TX) Police Department. He leads and coordinates all hiring, processing, and training for department personnel to include officers, dispatchers, records clerks, and other civilian personnel. He also serves as the Agency's representative to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement as a contractual training provider, and coordinates quality training and education opportunities for Central and South Texas law enforcement agencies. He has served in numerous capacities over the last 17 years to include: Corrections, Patrol, High-Risk (SWAT) Operations, and Police Administration. Michael has been field training Texas Peace Officers since 2006. He is a certified Instructor and has a Master Peace Officer Proficiency License. Michael brings valuable experience and knowledge into the classroom that combines field officer personality and administrative perspective that is unique and creates a great learning experience.

Richard R. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Academic Officer
  • Trainer and Researcher With
Richard R. Johnson, PhD, is a trainer and researcher with Dolan Consulting Group. He has decades of experience teaching and training on various topics associated with criminal justice, and has conducted research on a variety of topics related to crime and law enforcement. He holds a bachelor's degree in public administration and criminal justice from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, with a minor in social psychology. He possesses a master's degree in criminology from Indiana State University. He earned his doctorate in criminal justice from the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati with concentrations in policing and criminal justice administration. Dr. Johnson has published more than 50 articles on various criminal justice topics in academic research journals, including Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice & Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Police Quarterly. He has also published more than a dozen articles in law enforcement trade journals such as the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Police Chief, Law & Order, National Sheriff, and Ohio Police Chief. His research has primarily focused on police-citizen interactions, justice system responses to domestic violence, and issues of police administration and management. Dr. Johnson retired as a full professor of criminal justice at the University of Toledo in 2016. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Johnson served several years working within the criminal justice system. He served as a trooper with the Indiana State Police, working uniformed patrol in Northwest Indiana. He served as a criminal investigator with the Kane County State's Attorney Office in Illinois, where he investigated domestic violence and child sexual assault cases. He served as an intensive probation officer for felony domestic violence offenders with the Illinois 16th Judicial Circuit. Dr. Johnson is also a proud military veteran having served as a military police officer with the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, including active duty service after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Before that, he served as an infantry soldier and field medic in the U.S. Army and Army National Guard.

Scott W. Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Scott is a full professor in the State University of New York - Buffalo State. In 2006, he earned a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany. Since then he has published over 35 peer-reviewed research articles focusing on empirical examinations of police decision making, police attitudes, and police culture. Scott's research has examined the arrest and criminal charging decisions when officers handle domestic violence incidents, police officer's attitudes about the use of force, police officer self-motivation, diffusion of policing innovations, aspects of police militarization, the use of body-worn cameras, and the factors influencing an officer's use of deadly force. Scott was selected twice as the Futurist Scholar in Residence with the Behavioral Science Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy in Quantico, VA. In addition, he worked in the COPS Office with the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as a police officer in Houston, TX.

Sergeant McEwen

Sergeant McEwen is a four-time attendee of William Westfall's "Emerson Summit," which is an annual gathering of nationally recognized leaders in their fields. He is also an Indiana state certified Training Instructor, a graduate and faculty member of the IMPD Leadership Academy, and the 2016 recipient of the prestigious IMPD Joshua Chamberlain Leadership Award.