Ms. Frances V. Taylor joins TND with over 14 years of combined certified law enforcement and correctional probation officer service and over 18 years of law enforcement program training and development experience. Ms. Taylor has worked extensively with TND assisting with the publishing and development of their online training program and materials. She has direct experience in the development of a wide variety of law enforcement and public safety training management and assessment programs for both military and civilian agencies since 1987.

Ms. Taylor began her law enforcement career in 1985 at Fort McClellan, Alabamawhere she completed the U.S. Army Basic Military Police Training program with the 120 men and women of C Company, 10^th Military Police Training Battalion.Her first exposure to the specter of terrorism went well beyond the standard in-processing SAEDA and OPSEC briefings she received upon reaching her first duty assignment overseas in West Germany when, just two weeks later, a terrorist bomb ripped through a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. Army soldiers. Throughout that time and the remainder of her military career, Ms. Taylor consistently worked under ongoing conditions of security threat in an environment where she and her co-workers were highly likely targets of international and domestic terrorist aggression. Ms. Taylor has not onlyreceived an enormous amount of intensive and specialized force protection and anti-terrorism training, she has also conducted agency response operations to numerous real-world critical incidents involving multiple jurisdictions both international and local, including responses to situations such as terrorist bomb threats, multiple alarm and failed authentication events at highly sensitive top-secret facilities, possible NBC exposure and hazmat incidents, etc. while serving with both the active duty and reserve components in positions ranging from entry-level Military Police enlisted member to MP Supervisor to MP Commander as both Non-Commissioned and Commissioned Officer. Her duty positions have included law enforcement patrol operations athighly sensitive training installations, MP field and garrison operations at several first call-up/rapid deployment units and Military Police Battalion Staff Intelligence Officer, with her last assignment as Company Commander with a Floridabased Combat Support Military Police Battalion. Her expertise asmilitary police training manager and program evaluator, under the conditions of security threat within which she has worked, have given her highly specialized skills and expertise that will bring to the TND classroom an outstanding series of anti-terrorism and critical incident response training for law enforcement which she will present online in the upcoming months.

After obtaining her Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from the Universityof Florida, Ms. Taylor entered the ranks of Certified Florida Law Enforcement Officers as a state-level Correctional Probation Officer in Ocala, Floridawhere she completed the Correctional Probation Officer Academy and Florida State CPO Certification Exam in 1995. During her time with the Florida Department of Corrections, in addition to her assignment as a Probation and Parole Officer, Ms. Taylor was designated supplemental responsibilities as a department trainer and field training officer, providing statutorily mandated instruction and training circuit-wide to Correctional Probation Officers, Supervisors and staff. Her expertise in this capacity was recognized by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement when she became an FDLE designated subject matter expert in CPO Operations and one of just a handful of LEOs, CPO's and CO's statewide assigned as developers and contributors to the 1st Edition of the FDLE Item Writer's Manual which was established to identify substantive standards for the writing of the FDLE LEO, CPO and CO certification exams currently required of all local and state-level law enforcement officers.  Her regular Probation and Parole Officer duties included assignments as Unit Investigator, Community Supervision Officer, and Pre-Trial Intervention Officer. During her last three years with the department, while assigned as the unit Pre-Trial Officer, Ms. Taylor became a charter member of the newly formed multi-agency Drug Court Team as the Marion County Drug Court Officer and specialized in the supervision of drug offenders through a combination of intensive drug testing, frequent court appearances and standard and electronic monitoring conditions. Her expertise in this area and general CPO operations will provide the basis for a Correctional Probation Officer training series which will also be available through the TND classroom.

In 2000, Ms. Taylor began consulting in the private sector as the Co-Owner and Co-Director of Specialized Law Enforcement Training, Inc., a Florida Corporation which provided advanced Law Enforcement Training and consultation services throughout the United States to social service agencies, law enforcement agencies, police training academies, prosecuting attorneys, and criminal defense attorneys and developed and also produced and conducted promotional exams in the areas of corrections and law enforcement for contracting agencies.

For the past six years, Ms. Taylor has also worked with colleges and universities in Florida, Texasand West Virginiaas an adjunct on-line and in-class faculty member and designated subject matter expert to provide instruction, curriculum development and assessment consultation for college level Social Science and Criminal Justice programs on and off-line.

Ms. Taylor continues to provide consultation services and college level instruction on-line and is currently an online training development consultant and instructor for TND as well as the TND System and Site Administrator.