Sergeant Shaffer currently serves with the Loveland Police Department in Loveland, Colorado. During his 21-year career with the department, he has functioned as a patrol sergeant, coordinator for his Department’s Field Training and Evaluation Unit, coordinator/supervisor of the Background Investigation Unit, personnel sergeant, skills instructor, and P.O.S.T. academy instructor. He earned a Bachelor degree in Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Since 1996, Sgt. Shaffer has been specially trained and actively involved as a linguistic statement analyst and regularly offers his skills as an investigative consultant and linguistic statement analysis instructor with departments throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
