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Chris Walsh:  After four years of honorable and distinguished service in the United States Marine Corps. Chris Walsh began his service to the Casper Police Department in 1990 as a patrol officer.  During his career in law enforcement, spanning nearly 24 years, he climbed the ranks of the Casper Police Department and was ultimately appointed Chief.  Mr. Walsh has direct experience in every level of management in a police department.  Over the years, Mr. Walsh has served in many aspects of police work; his assignments included:  instruction and training, SRT, a multi-year undercover assignment, patrol and investigations.  Through POST, Mr. Walsh has earned over 3,800 hours of certified training and in excess of 1,000 hours certified instructor training.  From 2005 to 2007 Mr. Walsh served an active duty enlistment in the United States Army, deployed to combat in Iraq engaged in the nation’s war on terror.   Mr. Walsh was selected by the Governor of Wyoming to sit on the Governor’s Task Force, dedicated to school safety and security throughout the state.  Mr. Walsh chaired the response planning and training committee for the Governor’s task force. Until his retirement from his appointment as Chief of Police in 2014, Mr. Walsh was a member of the Executive Board for the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs and also a member of the State Traffic Safety Committee.  Mr. Walsh has extensive and diverse experience in major project management, complex personnel issues, as well controlling critical incidents, and continues to serve his community through training and instruction with the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police.

The goal of this training is to give employees and supervisors the knowledge and understanding of the negative effects of physical and mental impairment on the job.  It will also teach methods of detection and proper steps to address impairment in the workplace.  The training will provide a foundation for a safe work place and meet the requirements for organizations meet the requirements for training concerning drug free workplace regulations.  Instruction is presented in two sessions the first hour is for all employees and the second hour is designed for supervisors. The training will focus on the following objectives:

1. To provide employees an understanding of the dangerous effects of impairment in the workplace

2. To provide employees with an understanding of how to identify impairment and direction on how to report impairment

3. To provide direction on treatment and recovery programs for employees based on specific organization policy

4. To provide Supervisors the skills to identify impairment and understand reasonable suspicion

5. To provide Supervisors the knowledge on the proper course of action to take if they have reasonable suspicion and employee is impaired.