ABOUT US

RK Miller retired from the Huntington Beach (Calif.) Police Department as a lieutenant after 30 years of service in a variety of assignments, including FTO, trauma support, beach detail, detectives, special enforcement unit, SWAT, field supervisor, watch commander, Executive Officer and training manager. He has been on staff for over 20 years as first a Recruit Training Officer and then an instructor at the Golden West College (Huntington Beach, CA) Criminal Justice Training Center. In addition to these assignments, he served for 15 years as officer in charge of that institution’s California POST certified Basic SWAT Academy and remains as part of the instruction staff..

RK is president of National Training Concepts, Inc. (www.ntc-swat.org). He has previously worked as an instructor with the NRA’s Law Enforcement Division, Combined Tactical (CTS), the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA), Heckler & Koch’s (H&K) International Training Division, Singleton International and the U. S. Dept. of State’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP). He has carried out extensive law enforcement training in the United States and other locations on a wide variety of topics. These include leadership, critical incident management, firearms, tactical team training, less lethal, diversionary devices, force on force and active killer response.

RK retired from the Board of Directors for the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) in 2019.  He remains a Director Emeritus. He teaches at the CATO SWAT Team Leader course. In addition to CATO, he belongs to a number of other professional associations including the NTOA. Along with his instructional pursuits, R K conducts policy reviews and SWAT Team assessments for law enforcement agencies. He also provides expert witness services focused on litigation challenges to police practices. He graduated cum laude from Long Beach State University with a BA in Political Science and is a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. R K has been a regular columnist with CATO News for a number of years and prior to that with Law Officer Magazine. His law enforcement career has continued with him serving as a reserve officer with the Orange Police Department, primarily with that agency’s SWAT team and Training Unit. He may be reached at info@ntc-swat.org.

Jim Olson retired from the Cypress (California) Police Department as a commander after 27 years of service in a variety of assignments.  Those assignments included the following: Field training officer, Cypress Community Action Team, S.W.A.T, special enforcement team supervisor, canine supervisor, jail supervisor, field training officer supervisor, lead patrol officer supervisor, press information officer, adjutant to the operations commander, and adjutant to the Chief of Police.  Jim was also an operator, supervisor and commander of a five-agency regional S.W.A.T team (West Orange County, California).

For approximately 13 years, Jim was adjunct faculty at the Golden West College Criminal Justice Training Center (Huntington Beach, California), where he was a S.W.A.T. Academy instructor, lifetime fitness instructor (LD 32), and the lifetime fitness manager/coordinator.

For the last 10 years, Jim has been an instructor for National Training Concepts, Inc. He has conducted and instructed training in tactical team dynamics, firearms, diversionary devices, less lethal, critical incident management, force on force, and active shooter/killer response. 

Jim has his Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Supervisory, and Management P.O.S.T. certificates.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach, and a master’s degree from University of California, Irvine.  He is a graduate of the Supervisors Leadership Institute and the P.O.S.T. Police Management course. 

Jim was an active member with the California Peace Officers’ Association serving on its regional board, and was an instructor/facilitator for the Region 1 Leadership Development Program.