Brian Marvel is a Police Officer III with the San Diego Police Department (SDPD), has served over 26 years in policing. His career includes a decade in patrol operations, specialized roles in demonstration control (Bravo Team), Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT), and a Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO). His last assignment was in the Research, Analysis, and Planning Unit and as the Military Liaison officer for the department. He is a veteran and an adjunct professor at the San Diego Regional Police Academy.

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In 2017, Brian was overwhelmingly elected President of PORAC, a 87,000+ member organization and is currently serving in his fourth two-year term. Mr. Marvel is the vice-chair of the California Governor’s Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Review Board and board member on the California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation. Mr. Marvel is the fourth PORAC President from the SDPOA.

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Brian was the former president of the San Diego Police Officers Associations and in 2009 was elected to the first of five two-year terms as President, representing 1,900+ members. In addition, Brian served as the board president of California Against Slavery, which spearheaded the passage of Prop 35 (2012), the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act; which was the most successful ballot initiative since California began the process in 1914. He also served as the president of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Chapter of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, covering federal, state, county and local associations from the Pacific Ocean to the Arizona state-line along the California-Mexican border. He was the former treasurer for the California Coalition of Law Enforcement Associations.

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• Contributing author to two books ‘Law Enforcement, Police Unions, and the Future,’ and 'Police Unions & the Reform Movement.'  

• Consulted on the development of the University of San Diego (USD) Master of Science in Law Enforcement & Public Safety Leadership program

• Consulted on the development of the USD Law Enforcement Association Leadership Symposium

• Presenter at Axon Accelerate Conference, 2016 & 2017, on Body Worn Cameras

• Presented at the Big 50 (Harvard Law School) and in Florida.