Chris Melendez

About Chris Melendez

Chris Melendez served over 21 years in law enforcement and retired as a Supervisor on a…

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Security Operations

   Progressive F.O.R.C.E. Concepts

   Jan 2013 — Present

   Chris Melendez brings to PFC a diverse and uniquely qualified background of instructional capabilities and operational expertise. Chris served over 20 years in law enforcement, and recently retired as a Supervisor on a multi-jurisdictional drug task force for a border state in the southwest U.S. In this assignment he was responsible for conducting covert operations in both urban and rural environments to combat major drug trafficking and money laundering groups.Prior to his retirement, Chris served for 12 years as tactical team leader responsible for addressing hundreds of high risk/tactical situations. During this assignment he has held nearly every role to include entry and sniper team leader, training unit supervisor, and sniper.Chris was also a POST Certified Lead Instructor with his agency where he routinely instructed firearms, entry weapons and tactics, precision rifle, and active shooter response. His responsibilities further included actively teaching this material to numerous other local, state and federal entities.

Skills

• Tactics
• Law Enforcement
• Vip Protection
• Corporate Security
• Counterintelligence
• Weapons
• Training
• Public Safety
• Surveillance
• Self Defense
• Executive Protection
• Close Protection
• Criminal Investigations
• Security
• Internal Investigations
• Physical Security
• Active Shooter
• Force Protection
• Patrol
• Firearms
• Criminal Justice
• Personal Protection
• Swat
• Protection
• Security Management
• Private Investigations
• Risk Assessment
• Police
• Emergency Management
• Security Operations
• Law Enforcement Operations
• Investigation
• Asset Protection
• Customer Service
• Homeland Security
• Personal Security
• Counterterrorism