Biographical Sketch
Dr. Schweizer has extensive Law Enforcement experience in the United States as a university
police officer, a Deputy Sheriff, Municipal Police Officer, Field Training Officer,
Detective, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Chief of Police. Worked in his native Germany
as a criminal investigator of major crimes and terrorist activities. Served in an
undercover capacity investigating international narcotics trafficking & international
organized crime (also in Germany). Additional experience includes that of a county
correctional/detention officer, and as a research assistant with the Tucson Police
Department. Also worked in private security in New York City and Tucson AZ, for a
legal aid bureau (Buffalo, NY) and the Pima County (AZ) public defender's office.
He is a member of the Karlsruhe, Germany chapter of the International Police Association
(IPA) and is the editor and sole author of a monthly IPA newsletter (in German) since
2008. Dr. Schweizer is a member of the Advisory Board for the German Bund deutscher
Kriminalbeamter (BdK), a national police organization that advises the national government
on policies and legal issues concerning police criminal investigations.
https://www.bdk.de/der-bdk/was-wir-tun/wissenschaftlicher-beirat
Dr. Schweizer is also a police consultant and has been an expert witness in federal
court in the area of police administration and police misconduct. His research interests
are in international criminal justice and policing, to include international criminal
laws and minimum hiring and training standards for police officers. Dr. Schweizer
has lectured at Police Academies and academic institutions in Finland, Germany, South
Africa, Japan, and Slovenia. He is published in Singapore, Poland, Japan, Slovenia,
and the United States. Dr. Schweizer has presented research at international conferences
and also in some of his publications, on diverse subjects such as Female Suicide Bombers,
Financial Crimes, International Organized Crime, The Use of the Internet by Criminal
Justice Organizations World-Wide, Problems in Selecting and Hiring Police Applicants,
and he is currently doing research on changing hiring standards in policing, the use
of artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology, and internet based search
mechanisms. Most recently he gave a two hour in-service lecture (in German) to police
officers on the use of A.I. and related technology in police investigations, at the
Karlsruhe, Germany police headquarters.
Dr. Schweizer holds various levels of peace officer certification in Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas, including a police instructor license for the state of Texas. Dr.
Schweizer previously taught criminal justice at the University of Central Oklahoma,
and reached the rank of tenured full professor, before coming to Fresno.
Before his law enforcement and academic career, Dr. Schweizer served as an infantry
squad leader with D Co. 58th Infantry and also B and D Troop of the 1st Air Cavalry
Division in the Republic of Vietnam.
His favorite pastime is physical fitness and reading the magazine CONDORITO.
