Bernard Aguirre: Classroom Instructor/ Firearm Instructor
Bernard is accountable for organizing and overseeing daily security operations, training and supervising security officers, performing security consulting and implementing standard policies and procedures. Bernard retired honorable as a sergeant after a successful carrier of 30 years with the Houston Police Department (HPD), where he held numerous leadership positions. He had been trained and assigned over the years to different divisions within the Houston Police Department, accumulating extensive experience in identifying and developing differential responses to crimes, solving community issues, working and interacting effectively with people at many levels, emergency response planning, riot control and dignitary protection. Bernard graduated from The Houston Police Academy, College of DuPage and Houston Community College.
Maurice Malak: Classroom Instructor/ Firearm Instructor
Maurice holds a BS degree in Business Marketing and he is a highly experienced Security Manager with 16 years of proven supervision and management experience in the contract security industry. Maurice experience includes senior operation manager, private
investigation, security consultant, classroom level 3 and firearm instructor.
Joseph M. Glad: FBI March 1982 through March 2012
Joe is a highly trained and experienced manager of a covert physical surveillance entity, including assignment as a surveillance National and Regional Response Coordinator. He has been responsible for all aspects of surveillance operations from planning through execution, as well as being responsible for collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence gathered during secret operations. Joe has strong qualifications in surveillance reporting and performance appraisals of employees. He has been instrumental in a number of innovative and cutting-edge initiatives while working closely with executive managers of the FBI at FBI Headquarters in Washington DC. He ensured subordinates had and continued to receive necessary training in the most up-to-date tradecraft and technology. He followed employee progress and training needs throughout their career.
As a surveillance Coordinator, from 1993 to 2008, Joe was responsible for a large pool of a mobile surveillance personnel and a mid-size group of static surveillance personnel. He supervised both the static and mobile surveillance programs as one combined squad for over two years. He worked in this type of fast-paced, high volume operational environment for 16 years.
Joe developed and implemented numerous technical, operational and training manuals involving the surveillance trade. The manuals are designed to assist the surveillance employee with writing documents, vouchers, travel request forms, security awareness issues, cover stories, and building security. Some of the manuals have been designated as prototypes and are used by all other FBI Divisions.
Joe recently retired from the FBI to join fellow retirees in the formulation of the Surveillance Specialty Group Surveillance Training Academy.
Charles Marler: FBI March 1992 through March 2008
Charles worked for the FBI for 16 years learning all facets of the Bureau’s complex operations from evidence collection, radio communications, aviation surveillance, and Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR). Charles was an Investigative Specialist for 12 years as a member of the Special Surveillance Group and conducted, organized and completed thousands of surveillances on Drug (as FLIR operator), Intelligence and Terrorism targets. He participated in joint training operations with the DIA, DEA, JCTA and CIA. Charles was an instructor and evaluator numerous times for the FBI’s surveillance training programs.
Charles managed a number of FLIR System Operators while coordinating one of the FBI’s prominent FLIR programs. He provided case guidance, became an expert in the operation and maintenance of FLIR equipment, and personally trained or provided training for his operators. Under Charles leadership and guidance, the FLIR program conducted numerous successful operations against espionage subjects, suspected terrorism subjects, drug shipments, violent crime, and kidnap searches.
Since 2008, Charles has been a co-owner of a private investigative firm based in Houston and has worked as a Private Investigator in Texas for the past four years which specializes in covert physical surveillance operations. As a P.I. he has performed criminal investigations and conducted surveillance operations involving workman’s compensation, child custody, drug use, theft, and the elusive but frequent cheating spouse.