Liability & Force
Standards Training
Direct line: (239) 571-1840 · GregoryGilbertson@proton.me
For law-enforcement agencies
Officers meet the use-of-force standard in a courtroom years after they meet it on the street. This training closes that gap: the liability landscape and the force standards, taught by the expert who testifies on both.
Three experts. Over 110 years.
Professor Gregory Gilbertson (Ret.), FBI Special Agent Christopher Holland (Ret.), and Sheriff Robert Snaza consult with attorneys nationwide regarding police practices and procedures, use of force, false arrest, police misconduct, criminal, and self-defense casework.
CEO & OwnerThirty-eight years in four uniforms: street cop, soldier, professor, investigator. More than 220 matters in 42 states and D.C. since 2014, with testimony that has not been excluded at trial in any state or federal court.
Full biography
ConsultantMore than thirty-five years in public safety: twelve years and three terms as the elected Sheriff of Lewis County, Washington, and six years a commissioner of the state board that sets peace-officer training standards.
Full profile
ConsultantForty years of investigative casework, from patrolman in St. Louis County to the FBI in Chicago, and on to task forces in Afghanistan and Liberia. His work on the Idaho student murders is examined in Broken Plea, the New York Times bestseller by Christopher Whitcomb.
Full profileNever excluded. Professor Gilbertson’s testimony has not been excluded at trial in any state or federal court.
The Hon. Richard A. Jones United States District Judge“Mr. Gilbertson’s qualifications demonstrate extensive experience in policing. His expansive work as a police officer in Georgia, with assignments as a SWAT team officer, juvenile court investigator, school resource officer, stakeout squad officer, senior patrolman, and patrolman; then a career as a tenured college professor and university lecturer teaching criminal justice courses to degree-seeking students at colleges and universities, and as a licensed private investigator conducting felony pretrial investigations for attorneys in Washington State in dozens of criminal cases, makes him unique in the field of police expert witnesses. The Court finds that, based on his experience, Mr. Gilbertson’s testimony can be expected to have a reliable basis in knowledge and experience of police practices.”
What this covers.
Within this engagement
- Civil liability for law-enforcement officers
- Use-of-force standards
- Threat assessment
- Resistance and proportionality
- Unlawful detention and false arrest exposure
- Searches and seizures
Built from thirty-eight years of casework and classroom instruction, and from the expert-witness chair where training failures become verdicts. Scoped agency by agency.
Engagement terms and the published fee schedule: For Retaining Counsel →
Working references for this practice area.
Guides for retaining counsel, written from the same record this analysis reads.
Before the record is sent.
Who should attend?
What does retention cost?
Request liability and force-standards training.
For law-enforcement agencies. Conflicts are checked before anything substantive, and you will hear about a conflict immediately.
Request sent.
You will hear back directly. If the matter is urgent, call (239) 571-1840.
Programs are built from the agency's own policies and training records. Send no case-specific or personnel-confidential material with a first inquiry.