Ron Beggs, MPA, BS, PSP is a Principal Consultant with Threat Suppression, Incorporated. Ron started working at Threat Suppression in 2021. Ron currently serves as a project manager for multiple high-profile contracts at Threat Suppression.

 

Ron specializes in complex investigations, emergency management, counter-terrorism prevention and response, and law enforcement policy. Ron has more than 30 years of law enforcement experience. After retiring as a police chief, Ron went on to serve as an analyst for a federal law enforcement agency specializing in financial crime.

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Ron also served on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) Executive Board. Ron previously served as the commanding officer for a municipal Special Units Division which included SWAT, Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT), and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD).

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Ron has extensive experience in the field of emergency management. He is a former municipal deputy emergency management coordinator, a member of a major metropolitan area All-Hazard Incident Management Team (IMT) and served as the State of Michigan Planning Coordinator for Team Rubicon, a volunteer disaster relief organization.

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Ron served as an instructor for the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium where he instructed courses on countering violent extremism and identifying organizational training gaps. He is also a former lecturer for the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Eastern Michigan University School of Police Staff and Command.

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Ron has served as an invited guest for panel discussions and presentations at FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and the Responses to Terrorism (START), the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Easter Michigan University's School of Staff and Command. Ron frequently lectures on topics such as countering violent extremism (CVE), constitutional policing, targeted violence interventions, and building resiliency in faith-based organizations. Ron is proud of his contributions as a past member of a working group established by the United States Department of Homeland Security tasked with developing tabletop exercises for faith-based organizations.

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Ron has a master’s in public administration from the University of Michigan, a bachelor of science in criminology from Eastern Michigan University and is a graduate of the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety School of Staff and Command. Ron also completed a post-graduate course in law enforcement and military intelligence at Dakota State University. Ron is a board-certified physical security professional (PSP). Ron can be reached at at rbeggs@ThreatSuppression.com.