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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Recent Reviews
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This class was very entertaining and resourceful in a lot of different ways.
Lots and tons of useful information and techniques.
Good course
Fantastic information and presentation. Lots of insight into how state and locals work.
They gave real world experience and helped articulate how it could work for us
Finding a way to fit more scenarios/reps in.
Liked the interaction with the class, stayed engaged.
Learned a lot and im confident im going to use tools provided for the entirety of my Law Enforcement career
Awesome and informative class. Very informative case law and additional information!
Class info was extremely useful. I was able to use the tools given
I really enjoyed this class. Im excited to use this training in my day to day tasks. Definitely recommend every officer take this class!
Great class, especially for new officers and officers that want to go the further step.