Jeff Smith spent 29 years working in law enforcement, most of it working undercover in the Narcotics Unit. Jeff has worked cases with DEA, FBI, HSI, US Customs, Maryland State Police, Delaware State Police, Virginia State Police and many other agencies all over the region.
Jeff has participated in thousands of operations both as a detective and supervisor. In his 10 years as a drug enforcement supervisor, Jeff’s unit was responsible for 1,226 arrests.
Jeff has helped design and implement numerous long-term undercover operations that have resulted in as many as 41 arrests in one operation. His unit ran an undercover taxi company in Ocean City for 2 ½ years resulting in dozens of indictments for felony drug distribution offenses.
The unit was often responsible for and regularly trained for their own tactical operations in open air buy bust operations, rolling buy bust operations, long term round-up operations, vehicle involved arrests and takedowns, officer and informant rescue and other tactical operations. They were the “go to” unit for the agency when there were special surveillance and non-traditional operational needs.
Jeff also spent 10 years as a tactical officer with the department’s SWAT team and has been a Crisis Negotiator and Assistant CNT Commander for the department’s SWAT team for 12 years.
Jeff Smith currently serves as a Street Cop Training Instructor and owner and Chief Instructor of Blackbird Training LLC.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- How ego almost got him killed during a buy-bust.
- How he handled the stress of working such a dangerous assignment for so long.
- What he wants young aggressive cops to know about the job in this environment (hint: the job isn’t dead).
Follow him on social media @streetcop_smitty and learn where you can catch his class at streetcoptraining.com
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