Leonard Territo Ph.D.

Dr. Territo has served a Chief Deputy for a Florida Sheriff’s Office and recently retired after 30 years as a professor at a state university in Florida. Dr. Territo is also internationally recognized for a number of his publications on Law Enforcement.

Dr. Leonard Territo is a Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Florida, he served first as a major and then as Chief Deputy (Undersheriff) with the Leon County Sheriff’s Department, Tallahassee, Florida.

M.A., University of South Florida; Ed.D., Nova University

As Chief Deputy, he was responsible for the daily operation of the Leon County Sheriff’s Department which employed approximately two hundred deputies and civilians. He also served for almost nine years with the Tampa Police Department and had assignments as a patrol officer, homicide, rape, and robbery detective, internal affairs detective, and member of the police academy training staff. Dr. Territo is the former chairperson of the Department of Police Administration, and Director of the Florida Institute for Law Enforcement at St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Dr. Territo has coauthored some of the leading books in the law enforcement profession including: Police Civil Liability, Police Administration, Criminal Investigations, Stress and Police Personnel, The Police Personnel Selection Process; Crime and Justice in America, Hospital and College Security Liability, College Crime Prevention and Personal Safety Awareness. His books are presently being used in over 950 colleges and universities in 50 states and he has had numerous articles published in nationally recognized law enforcement and legal journals.

His academic credentials include an Associate in Arts in Police Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Social Science, a Master of Arts in Political Science, and a Doctor of Education. He is also a graduate of the United States Secret Service Dignitary Protection Seminar and the nationally recognized University of Louisville, National Crime Prevention Institute.