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Staff Sergeant Dan Farr began his police career with the Halton Regional Police Service in July of 1974, and has spent almost half of those thirty years in the field of Criminal Intelligence. He is a graduate of Charles Sturt University in Australia and holds a Bachelors Degree in Police Studies, Majoring in Criminal Intelligence, Interviewing and Criminal Investigations. He has been a member of various investigative task forces tasked with investigating the phenomenon of organized crime. He is currently assigned as the Manager of the Quality Assurance Bureau of the police service and keeps his hand in the intelligence field as a part-time member of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) in the Greater Toronto Area. Between 1993 and 1995 Staff Sergeant Farr was seconded to the Leadership faculty of the Ontario Police College and facilitated sessions at the First Line Supervisory and Intermediate command levels. He also taught at Mohawk, Conestoga and Sheridan Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology, where he provided instruction in the area of intelligence, organized crime and terrorism. He has participated in training initiatives on both Organized Crime and Terrorism for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Toronto Police Service (TPS), Canada Customs Intelligence, Canadian American Law Enforcement Organization (CALEO) and Criminal Intelligence Services Ontario (CISO).