Floyd Petersoncurrently serves as the Director of Tactical Training and Technology for Marian
University Police Department. As a University Campus Police Officer he assists local, state, and federal
law enforcement agencies in areas such as active shooter, restorative justice, school safety, police
survival tactics, physical tactics and verbal judo. He has served as the project manager for the
development of regional response plans, and other efforts aimed at enhancing an agency’s overall
investigative response to violent crime incidents, missing, abducted and exploited children incidents, as
well as juvenile crime, bullying and reducing underage drinking. He is now a national lecturer on Juvenile
Behavior and School Violence Assessments and has conducted research in the areas of social emotional
intelligence of adolescents and adverse childhood experiences. He is the recipient of numerous awards
for his support and expertise in anti-bullying, adolescent crime, child exploitation investigations and safe
passages and teen suicide prevention and intervention training in the City of Indianapolis, IN. He is the
former 2nd Vice-President of the Indiana Association of School Resource Officers, and a founder
member of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy Associates.
