Meet Our Instructors

Dean is the co-owner of Insight Strategies, LLC, a criminal justice training company. He has taught higher education courses in criminal justice, national security, intelligence, and political science and most recently led a team of 21 instructors in the Pima Community College Administration of Justice Studies program.
Operationally, Dean was a CIA-trained undercover operative, trainer, and drug intercept operations officer. As an undercover operative, Dean ran confidential informant operations focused on drug organizations, insurgent activities, development of weapons of mass destruction, and illegal arms transfers. As the counterdrug intercept operations officer, Dean led deploying F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft units in drug transport intercept missions for two Joint Interagency Task Forces.
He later led a national-level military counterdrug planning and program evaluation section with responsibilities over 54 state and territory counterdrug programs. Dean finished his military career as a Lieutenant Colonel and policy advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics. In this role, he focused on military support to domestic law enforcement agencies.
Dean has a law degree and two masters degrees on National Security Affairs and Strategy, respectively. He has training in military intelligence, CIA informant operations, illicit drug familiarization (from FLETC), interrogation, Russian language, and in teaching and course development.

John is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from The University of Alabama. While in Tuscaloosa John, worked at the Tuscaloosa Metro Jail as well as the Tuscaloosa Regional Juvenile Detention Facility. He also worked with released adults and juveniles under supervision. John later attended Jacksonville State University, obtaining a Master’s degree in Public Administration.
When John graduated from Alabama he returned home to New Orleans to take a position as a Probation and Parole Officer with the State. Three and a half years later he relocated to Guntersville, Alabama and began work as a Police Officer quickly becoming an Investigator. John became the Chief Investigator in 2007 and is currently employed with the Guntersville Police Department as Deputy Chief of Police.
John enjoys working in a smaller department as it requires proficiency investigating all types of criminal activity. John has been the case agent on numerous capital murder cases to include a serial murder. He is well versed in crime scene processing and conducts monthly practical exercises titled Forensic Friday for the Marshall County Major Crime Unit.
John delivered the D.A.R.E curriculum for seven years and has been a police instructor in various subjects throughout his career to include defensive tactics, de-escalation, crime scene, investigation, and response to critical incidents, among others.

Paul Kellogg III graduated from Auburn University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement. From there, he joined the Irondale Police Department in 1993. He has been with Irondale for 32 years.
During his time with Irondale, Paul has held the rank of patrol officer, detective, tactical officer, patrol sergeant, administrative sergeant and administrative lieutenant. He is currently serving as the patrol commander at the department. Paul is also the command supervisor of the traffic unit, the canine unit and the tactical response unit.
Paul is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Session 272. Paul also graduated from the FBI/LEEDA Trilogy leadership course. He is a certified property and evidence room manager and is an expert witness in use of force reviews and internal affairs investigations. He is an instructor in multiple areas of law enforcement including ethics, defensive tactics and less lethal devices.

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