Law Enforcement
Dan Saban, an award-winning visionary law enforcement professional with more than 37 years of public, private, and international public sector experience.
Dan’s solid reputation as a distinguished public safety leader after serving 25 years with the Mesa Police Department, Mesa, Arizona, led to his selection by the City of Buckeye, Arizona, in 2005 to serve as its Police Chief. While in Buckeye, he transformed and reshaped, a growing department, raising the standards of professionalism, trust, respect, and performance, while creating long lasting and very successful public/private partnerships.
Dan holds a graduate level degree along with successful completion of several command leadership colleges.
He’s received numerous awards/commendations throughout his career to include; Distinguished Service Award, 24 personal law enforcement commendations, Awarded 5 unit citations; Traffic, SWAT, Training, and SID (2), Town of Gilbert Character Teamwork Award, Child Crisis Center Volunteer of the year Award, Martin Luther King "living the dream" Award, Arizona Governor’s Office and the White House for Community Initiatives in a national forum for creating the Faith Builders Public Safety Partnership in Buckeye, Arizona Awarded distinguished service award for establishing the East Valley Holiday DUI task force.
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Service Areas
- Law Enforcement Standard of Care
- Police Internal Affairs Investigations
- Police Policy and Procedure Development and Implementation
- Law Enforcement Training and Process Controls, Hiring, Development
- Police Use of Force and Failure to Protect
Expertise
- Special Investigations
- Narcotics
- Training & Human Resources
- Community Policing
- Internal Affairs
- Administrative Policy / Discipline
- S.W.A.T.
- Public Safety Communications
- Organizational Restructuring and Implementation
- Workplace Emergency, Crisis, Safety, and Violence Training
Education
- Southwest Command College
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Northern Arizona University
Master of Education: Human Relations - Arizona State University
Institute for Public Executives - Arizona State University
Law Enforcement Command Institute - Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science - Justice Studies - Mesa Community College
Associate of Applied Science - Justice Science - In-Service Training
Over 4,000 Hours
Testifying Experience
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Dan has been retained as an expert witness in over 50 Law Enforcement (LE) Standard of Care cases.
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Cases include civil/criminal proceedings in three different states over the past 14 years.
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Dan has been certified in Federal, State, County, and Municipal courts as a LE Standard of Care expert.
Additional Achievements
- Provided five months of special training to local police officers in Trinidad and Tobago via Institute for Strategic Crime Control.
- Accomplished major restructuring of the Town of Buckeye’s Police Department. The restructuring resulted in increased community cooperation in crime identification and reduction, streamlining all department processes, increasing police response time, higher rates of case closing, increased discipline in the ranks, lower turnover, and increased professionalism.
- Completely revised the Buckeye School Districts’ Resource Officers program by creating a new version called “VALUE Kids,” which emphasized good citizenship while teaching children about the dangers of drugs and gangs.
- Created numerous community partnership policing models which successfully incorporate businesses, schools, and faith-based organizations in his efforts to reduce crime.
- Founded the East Valley DUI Taskforce.
- Developed a method for public safety members to access documented gang member information.
- Developed and implemented Operation TIGAR (Targeting Illegal Gang Activity Resourcefully)
- Developed and implemented project INDIGO (Impacting Narcotic Dealings in Gang Operations)
