John Bowman Jr. — Instructor Profile
About John Bowman Jr.
John Bowman Jr was born and raised in Central Texas and graduated from C.E. Ellison High School.
John was raised by a police officer, who has over 30 years of law enforcement experience, and is still actively serving in Central Texas. John knew his calling was law enforcement from a very young age.
John started his career in law enforcement back in 2012 where he served as a Dispatcher and Jailer. John graduated from the Central Texas College Police Academy with the Academic Excellence award, and he was nominated as Class President by his peers. Since graduating from the police academy John has served as a Patrol Officer, Organized Crime Detective, and is now assigned to work mostly highway interdiction.
John has worked a large number of cases with multiple agencies to include the DEA, FBI, ATF, HSI, ICE, USM and many more resulting in state and federal convictions.
John is currently serving as regional board member with the Texas Narcotics Officer Association Central Region, as well as serving as a state board member with the Texas Gang Investigators Association.
John holds the following certifications:
TCOLE Instructor
Field Training Officer
Hidden Compartments and Interdiction Certificates
Roadside Interview / Interrogations Certificates
Undercover Operations Certificate
Over 200 hours of formal Gang Training
Over 200 hours of formal Narcotics Training
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This course was what every good proactive cop needs. Rather you have experience or knowledge with narcotics investigations and interdictions or your brand new everyone can take something away from course and more.
Very engaging course I had in a long time. There’s opportunity for scenarios to get experience, not a course of only slideshows. Instructors bring the energy and there experience on the street
Strongly recommend this course. Instructors are very knowledgeable and I enjoyed doing the scenarios. Instructors were very welcoming and listened to all questions and comments. I would highly recommend this course to any officer that want…
The class was very extensive and in depth. Real life scenarios were done and helped with applying what was learned in class to real life. I 100% enjoyed this class and the instructors. Even when you need extra help, the instructors take ex…
Best class I’ve been to. Better than anything the state puts out and has instructors that are the real deal.
Three day class with more scenarios, class with excellent with context and experience
Throughout the course both instructors were very informative and patient with all experience levels. Hands-on training was helpful as it helps students apply what they have learned.
Both instructors were great teachers, entertaining, and had a lot of good information to share.
These are skills I've learned from previous classes, but honestly this training honed them an elaborated better then any previous training.
I appreciated the case law discussed in this class and example questions.
Great class
This course was awesome!