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:

• BS degree, LeTourneau University
• AAS degree, Kilgore College

Law Enforcement Experience:

• 16 years' experience with ETPA
• 25 years' law enforcement experience
  • Gregg County Sheriff's Office
  • United States Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force
  • Kilgore College Police Department
  • Longview Police Department
  • Lakeport Police Department

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