Instructor Sgt. Bob Shaffer has been a police officer and sergeant for the Loveland Police Department in Loveland, Colorado since 1986. Sgt. Shaffer has completed over 200 hours of basic, advanced, and advanced mentoring instruction in modern statement analysis techniques. He has been providing quality classroom training in statement analysis since 1997 throughout the U.S., Canada, the Asian Pacific, the Middle East and Mexico His LSAT skills are often solicited by law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. in the course of their criminal investigations.

Bob earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1981. He spent six years teaching at the high school and junior college levels in addition to instructing law enforcement related topics extensively in local Colorado police academy programs and been featured as a guest speaker and numerous professional investigation conventions in the United States. He is a member of the teaching staff of P.A.T.C., (the Public Agency Training Council), the Ohio Police Officer Training Academy in London OH, and is a member of the National Association of Investigative Specialists.