Karl Milam

Karl Milam is a U.S. Army Veteran with 29 years of law enforcement experience, retiring as a lieutenant and head of the detective bureau at his police department in Ohio. His previous duties included patrol, field training officer, undercover narcotics officer, narcotics agent, S.W.A.T. entry and team leader, K9 officer and detective.

Milam has worked assignments with Southeastern Ohio Narcotics and Central Ohio Drug Task Force and major crimes assignments with the United States Bureau of ATF and Zanesville Special Investigations Unit. He graduated from the Ohio Attorney General’s Basic and Advanced Investigations courses.

Milam served 23 years in S.R.T./S.W.A.T. with 18 in a supervisory role for both the Southeastern Ohio Regional Tactical Team and city S.W.A.T teams, in addition to U.S. Army S.R.T., responding to and overseeing numerous violent critical incidents. He is a graduate of Miami-Metro Dade Florida S.W.A.T. Course, Columbus Police-Ohio Advanced S.W.A.T. Course, U.S. Army Advanced Team Leader Course-Camp Atterbury-Doug Pectel, Tactical Team Leader Course-Paul Howe and numerous other advanced weapons and tactics courses. Milam is a former board member of the Ohio Tactical Officers Association. Milam was a certified firearms and defensive tactics instructor with the State of Ohio and continues to train local agency officers and tactical teams.

Milam handled and retired two dual-purpose police K-9s (both S.W.A.T. assigned) and is still a current Ohio State Police K-9 Evaluator. He developed a basic K-9 course with the Ohio Peace Officer Training Association and has experience at writing K-9 policy on an agency level. He is former vice president of the Police K-9 Association-PK9A where he continues to train, decoy and help develop police dogs. PK9A is one of the largest training groups in the country.

Milam is a graduate of PELC (Police Executive Leadership College) Class of 28 

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