Allan Garcia

President & CEO / Primary Instructor

School Violence Solutions

Sergeant

Middletown, Rhode Island Police Department

Sergeant Allan Garcia has been a Middletown, Rhode Island police officer since 1988. From 1984-88, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division. Since 2003, he has been a certified instructor in active shooter / school violence tactics. While serving as a lead adjunct instructor for a world renowned tactical training company, Sgt. Garcia was in charge of nationwide instruction to hundreds of law enforcement personnel and school employees in how to recognize, react to, and prevent school shootings. Appointed as a principal member of a Governor’s statewide school emergency planning committee, he formulated, designed, and implemented training for educators throughout his entire home state. He has taught and advised many local and state police agencies in active shooter / school violence techniques and is recognized as an expert in these respective areas.

Sgt. Garcia has attained an enormous amount of specialized training throughout his military and law enforcement careers. In particular, he received instruction on first responder actions at bombing scenes taught by members of the Israeli Special Forces, and multiple terrorist school-siege doctrine taught by individuals who were the only westerners allowed to investigate the Beslan (Russia) school massacre in 2004.

Sgt. Garcia has seen service as a detective assigned to his police department’s criminal investigations division, and as both a uniformed patrol officer and a uniformed shift supervisor. He served for 14 years on departmental and regionalized SWAT teams and is a veteran of several incidents involving armed suspects. He was a lead instructor for a municipal police training academy for 6 years and is a state and local-level law enforcement firearms instructor. Sgt. Garcia also holds certifications as a field training officer and a first aid, CPR and AED instructor.