Michael W. Reath, Master Instructor
. served with the Crawfordsville Police Department prior to joining the staff at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in January of 1993. However, before his law enforcement career, Lieutenant Reath attended Wabash College on a basketball and baseball scholarship.
Lt. Reath has graduated from several driving schools including GM Proving Grounds EVO Instructor School in Milford, Michigan; Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy Advanced Emergency Vehicle Operations Course in Fairfax, Virginia, and BSR Executive Protection Driving School at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia to name a few. Lieutenant Reath is a certified SkidCar Instructor along with being a certified Driving Simulator Instructor. Lieutenant Reath has provided guidance for several departments and academies throughout the country in developing and revising their present driving programs.
Lt. Reath has been an active member of ALERT (Association of Law Enforcement Response Trainers) International since 1993 and was elected President, beginning in November of this year, and will serve his term over the next two years. Lieutenant Reath was also chosen to participate in the revision of the 2006 National Emergency Vehicle Training Reference Guide as well as assisting in the development of the 2007 workshop Train the Trainer Pursuit Seminar through IADLEST.
Lt. Reath is a graduate of the eighty-eighth (88th) Basic Session of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the one hundred ninety-seventh (197th) Session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Lt. Reath obtained his Master Instructor Certification in 1994 and is also a graduate of Northwestern University Traffic Institute for D.U.I. Instructors. Lieutenant Reath also holds certifications as an instructor in Physical Fitness from the Cooper Institute in Dallas, TX, PPCT Defensive Tactics Instructor, and Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Lieutenant Reath's primary duties are in the field of Emergency Vehicle Operations where he has served as the Academy's Director since 1995. In the year 2000, Lt Reath developed Indiana's First Advanced EVO Instructor School for P.I.T. training, rolling roadblocks, and other pursuit intervention termination techniques. Lieutenant Reath became a certified EVO Instructor from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in 1989.
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