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The President of Homefront Protective Group is Lou Savelli. Lou is a recently retired NYPD sergeant who created , Homefront Protective Group, the most innovative and reality-based training company' in the world.
About Lou Savelli:
While Lou Savelli's entire career was spent in the streets fighting crime and violent criminals, he has been conducting training courses for law enforcement officers from a variety of local, state and federal agencies within the United States, Canada, and overseas for more than 20 years.
Lou Savelli retired in 2004 as one of the most decorated officers in NYPD history. Before his retirement, he was the creator and Detective Squad Commander of the NYPD Terrorism Interdiction Unit (TIU), which was formed on September 11th, 2001 to aggressively combat terrorism in New York City and throughout the United States. Its mission is to investigate the attacks of the World Trade Center and proactively seek out al Qaeda cells operating in the Unite States.
Prior to the TIU, Lou Savelli was the Detective Squad Commander of the NYPD Detective Bureau’s Gang Division Major Case Squad which was created from the NYPD’s first citywide gang unit called CAGE. The Citywide Anti Gang Enforcement (CAGE) Unit was created by him in 1996 and because of its success, was awarded the National Gang Crime Research Center’s “Most Effective Gang Unit in the United States.”
Lou Savelli is the cofounder and current First Vice President of the East Coast Gang Investigators Association and a member of several law enforcement associations including the International Counter Terrorism Officers Association, International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association, Midwest Gang Investigators Association, National Alliance of Bunco Investigators, National Police Defense Foundation, Fraternal Order of Police, Police Writers Association and many others.
Lou Savelli was twice awarded supervisor of the year with the NYPD and under former NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton, Lou Savelli was named one of “NYPD’s Top 10 Most Effective Leaders” of all ranks out twenty thousand supervisors within the NYPD.
As a detective, Lou Savelli was a member of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force and he specialized in money laundering cartels and international drug trafficking organizations such as the Cali Colombia Drug Cartel. In fact, he and his unit effected the Largest Cash Seizure in World History which still stands as the world’s record: $20 Million Dollars. He was also a member of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, Narcotics Division where he personally conducted undercover operations in drug cases and investigated organized crime groups and narcotics traffickers.
Lou Savelli, as an author, has published five law enforcement books and many related articles on topics such as gangs, terrorism, extremism, crime scene investigation, identity theft, booby traps, street encounters, and more. He has attended John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the State University of New York. He has been an adjunct professor at John Jay College (NY), Southern Mississippi University, and St. Petersburg College (FL). Lou Savelli is a member of the National Speaker’s Association. He has been interviewed by the LA Times, Nottingham Press (London), Canadian Newspapers, New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Post, New York Newsday, and other papers. He was featured in a series on Homeland Security and Terrorism in the popular Goodlife TV Network documentary series called HOMEFRONT AMERICA. Lou Savelli is the author of the Pocketguide to Gangs Across America, Pocketguide to Identity Theft, Pocketguide to Crime Scene Investigation, and Proactive Law Enforcement Guide to the War on Terror, and the East Coast Gang Investigators Gang Investigation handbook.
Lou Savelli has been interviewed by dozens of local, national, and international newspapers, televesion programs, and documentary productions. He recently provided technical consulting and appeared in documentaries, such as History Channel's highly successul Gangland Series and the Expose 'Rap Sheet: Hip Hop and the Cops'.
During his 23 year law enforcement career, he has conducted successful investigations and proactive interdiction endeavors against terrorist groups, narcotics traffickers, firearms traffickers, street gangs, organized crime and other violent criminals. He has supervised and conducted countless undercover and surveillance operations as well as several hundred search warrants.
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