Jon Perry, SA

Jon Perry, SA, Virginia State Police retired as a Criminal Investigative Analyst for 12 years. Jon started his career with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department retiring after 25 years.

While with the Virginia State Police and the Kansas City, Mo. Police Dept., his duties included profiling unknown offenders of violent crime, conducting threat assessments, and providing crisis negotiations, along with instructing homicide investigation, sex crimes investigation and crisis negotiation. Over Jon’s career, he has been the primary negotiator in over ninety barricade situations.

Jon received his bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University in 1973 and his Master’s degree from the University of Missouri in 1975. In 1988, Jon spent a one (1) year fellowship at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, FBI Academy, where he studied “psychological profiling” . Jon has instructed at the following institutions: the National Academy, which is housed at the FBI Academy; Ottawa University; Central Missouri State University; Longview Community College; Penn Valley Community College; University of Missouri; Bluefield College and Radford University. In addition, Jon has instructed for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Netherlands National Police, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in Okinawa, Japan and the New South Wales Police Dept. in Sydney, Australia.

Jon is a member of the following organizations: Florida Sex Crimes Investigator’s Association, the Virginia Negotiator’s Association and is currently the President of the International Criminal Investigative Analysts Fellowship, Inc.

Jon has certified as an expert witness four times in the area of Criminal Investigative Analysis and Crisis Negotiation. Two times in Federal Court and two times at the state level, Virginia.