Just a Good Conversation: Paul Pantani

Paul Pantani was born in New York City and raised in Southern California. From a young age Paul knew he wanted to be a police officer. Paul got his first job with a law enforcement agency in 1988, shortly after graduating high school. Paul has spent the last thirty plus years working in law enforcement in various assignments and capacity, both civilian and sworn. Paul has been a police officer since 1992.

During his law enforcement career Paul has held assignments as a Field Training Officer, Detective, Bicycle Patrol Officer, Range Instructor, Tactical Team Member, and Computer Forensics Examiner; spending two years assigned to the FBI. Paul has also commanded divisions including Task Forces investigating Internet Child Exploitation, Narcotics, Gangs, Violent Felon Apprehension, and Cold Case Homicide.

Paul has a master’s degree and has been teaching college level graduate and undergraduate programs in Cybersecurity and Computer Crimes Investigations since 2011.

Paul has a podcast Transition Drill https://www.transitiondrillpodcast.com

Whether it is retirement, the end of an enlistment, an unexpected opportunity or other interest, or something that occurs which forces you to transition before you planned to, we will all have to address our transition. How each of us handles our transition comes from how prepared we are.