Les Ferguson,
Master Instructor and
Range Master
903-983-8671 (voice)
lferguson@kilgore.edu
(e-mail)
Professional Licensure:
- Master Peace Officer license
- TCLEOSE Instructor license
- TCLEOSE Firearms Instructor
- TCLEOSE Mental Health Peace Officer
- CIT Instructor
- Range
2000 Use of Force Simulator
instructor
- Child Abuse Prevention and Investigation instructor
- Stinger Spike Tire Deflation Instructor
- ASP expandable baton instructor
certificate
- Level IV Self-defense / mechanics of
arrest instructor certificate
- CPR / First Aid Instructor License
- Strategos Strategies of Low-Light
Engagement certificate of completion
- Police Emergency Driving Instructor
certificate, Texas Municipal League
- Aerosol Agent Application Instructor
certificate
- Nightstick Instructor certificate
- Sub-Machine Gun Instructor certificate
- Rifle / Shotgun instructor
- TOPS instructor, Texas Engineering Extension
Service
- Operation Kids instructor, Texas Engineering Extension
Service
- Police Doppler RADAR speed measurement instructor
- recipient, Gregg County Sheriff's Office Officer of
the Year Award
- recipient, Veterans of Foreign Wars Officer of
the Year Award
- certified armormer:
- Sig Sauer
- Ruger
- Taurus
- GLOCK
- Beretta
-
Colt M-16 / AR-15
Education:
Law Enforcement Experience:
- 16 years' experience with ETPA
- 25 years' law enforcement experience
Areas of specialization:
- firearms
- low-light strategies for peace officers
- use of force simulator training
- mechanics of arrest
- police emergency driving
- armorer school
- narcotics
- supervision
- tactical / dynamic entry
- criminal investigation
- sexual assault investigation
- RADAR