Kirk Torgensen 

Chief Deputy 

Utah Attorney General’s Office 

5272 South College Drive 

Salt Lake City, Utah 84123 

I was appointed the Chief Deputy in January of 2001.  I knew Mark Shurtleff before because I hired him into the AG office years before.  We both left the AG office for other endeavors but when he was elected AG in November of 2000 he asked me to come back to the office with him as a Chief Deputy. 

 I was admitted into the Utah State Bar in August 1986, after graduating from the University of Utah Law School, I immediately joined the United States Air Force as a Judge Advocate and was stationed in Germany.  During my tour in Germany I focused primarily on criminal prosecution and criminal defense work.  This included over forty jury trials in venues located throughout Europe.  After leaving the Air Force in 1990, I joined the Utah State Attorney General ’s Office in the Criminal Appeals Division.  After eight months in this position I was promoted to Section Chief over the Civil Rights section. I served four years in that capacity, and then was selected from among eleven applicants to develop and supervise the first money laundering and racketeering unit in the State of Utah.  During that same period, I also tried two death penalty cases resulting in convictions.   

 In 1998, I was appointed by Governor Michael O. Leavitt to be the Director of the Adult Probation and Parole, where I was responsible for supervision of 500+ employees and a budget of over 35 million dollars.  The agency was responsible for supervision of over 15,000 offenders in Utah.  In January 2001, I was appointed by newly elected Attorney General of Utah to be the Chief Deputy of the Utah Attorney General ’s Office. 

 I have been honored in that capacity for various achievements, including a recent award as the outstanding contributor to Law Enforcement in Utah by the Utah Police Chief’s Association.  I have also been awarded the Nelson Kempsky Award by the Conference of Western Attorneys General as Outstanding Leader and Manager of the Year for 2005-06.  I was named one of Utah’s top lawyers in 2009 by my peers in Utah. 

 I have a long-standing commitment to quality training for Utah peace officers, and have appeared regularly over the last 16 years as an instructor for Police Officer Standards and Training, Utah Narcotics Officers Association and Utah Prosecution Council.  I am an adjunct professor for both Weber State University and the University of Utah, where I teach Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice classes. 

Teaching 

 Weber State University:  Criminal Justice Program.  I teach all the legal courses within this program.  They include 4^th Amendment Search & Seizure.  Constitutional Rights under the 5^th, 6^th, and 14^th Amendments; the Criminal Court system and Corrections Law. 

 University of Utah:  Masters of Public Administration Course.  I teach Administrative Law and Constitutional Law in this program. 

 Utah Peach Officers Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.):  I teach all of the legal topics within the basic Peach Officer Standards Program.  System, Search & Seizure, Laws of Arrest, and Peace Officer Liability. 

 I also teach advanced courses for Certified Officers which include a comprehensive legal case update, Use of Force, and Peace Officer Liability.  I also teach the legal block of the Internal Affairs Curriculum. 

 Juvenile Certification Academy:  I teach a full day of legal topics including Search & Seizure, Liability, Use of Force, etc… 

 Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Program:  I teach a comprehensive search and seizure block for this program. 

 References and Evaluations available upon request.

                                       PETER F. BOYCE

www.peterfboyce.com 

            Peter F.  Boyce is a lawyer in private practice in the Atlanta area.  For much of his career, Peter has counseled and defended police officers, their supervisors, their departments, and the governmental entity which employs them when they are threatened with suit or sued for allegations of wrongful conduct. 

            As an internationally recognized speaker and instructor in many aspects of police civil liability, Mr. Boyce has had the privilege and pleasure of making presentations to local, state, federal and foreign law enforcement officers throughout the world on various liability issues associated with drug enforcement work. He also teaches classes on Drug Interdiction, Conspiracy, Risk Avoidance, Asset Forfeiture, Supervisor Liability, the Use of Force, Profiling, Taser Liability, Highway Interdiction and Ethics. 

            Peter F.  Boyce is a graduate of the United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Presentations and Skill Course. He is the General Counsel for the National Drug Enforcement Officer’s Association, Inc./NDEOA. In addition to his seminar presentations related to undercover police work, he has made multiple presentations to the annual meeting of the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, for HIDTA-sponsored training, to state Sheriff’s Associations and to State Drug Enforcement Associations, as well as presentations to many other groups on police ethics, supervisory liability, street survival and street crimes. 

            Since most of Mr. Boyce’s career has been devoted to representing, counseling, and advising police officers, he is able to bring to his presentations a “real life, on-the-street scenario” that street cops immediately understand and appreciate. 

            Peter F. Boyce regularly works with law enforcement agencies to tailor presentations to meet specific training needs.  He is available to provide advice, consultation, representation or referrals to police officers and their employing agencies when they confront the inevitable legal issues that too often frustrate effective policing.  

            For the past ten years Peter F. Boyce has had the pleasure of speaking to thousands of street level cops as an instructor for the DEA in its Basic and Advanced Narcotic Investigative Schools. He has also spoken to, and on behalf of HIDTA, the Investigator’s Roundtable, the ROCIC, the Mid-West Counterdrug Training Center, multiple state Sheriff Associations, the Georgia and Tennessee Narcotics Officers’ Association, the Missouri Sheriffs’ Association, police departments and task forces throughout the country.  He is a contract instructor for MCTFT and for FLETC. He has served as a city attorney for 20 years, a Special Assistant County Attorney for 13 years, and he has represented large metropolitan police departments, as well as small city police departments. In his work as City Attorney he assisted law enforcement personnel in Asset Forfeiture investigations.                                                                                

 Rick Serrato  www.serratotraining.com

Task Force Officer (TFO) Aaron Johnson has been a police officer for 13 years in the State of Utah. He is currently assigned to the DEA Metro Narcotics Task Force/Salt Lake City Narcotics Group 5. TFO Johnson completed 10 years of exemplary service with the Ogden City Police Department, serving as a patrol officer, COP Bike Officer, Street Level Narcotics Interdiction Officer and as an Investigator for the Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force for 5 years. TFO Johnson was hired by the Salt lake City Police Department in 2008. In his time at Salt Lake City, TFO Johnson has served as a patrol officer in the Pioneer Patrol division, in the Strategic Reserve unit, and is currently assigned to the narcotics unit. TFO Johnson has received multiple service awards, commendations and awards of merit for his service as a law enforcement officer. TFO Johnson is fluent in Spanish and has been critical in the identification, investigation and prosecution of numerous, high-level, Mexican drug trafficking organizations. TFO Johnson has been a member of the Utah Narcotics Officers Association since 2003, and currently serves as an UNOA Region III representative. TFO Johnson was the recipient of the UNOA Agent of the year Award in 2005. TFO Johnson currently resides in Weber County.

Sgt. Joe Sturzenegger has been a police officer for 20 years. Sgt. Sturzenegger served 6 years as a military policeman, in Europe, Central America, South America and the United States. He has served the last 14.5 years with the Salt Lake City Police Department. Sgt. Sturzenegger is currently assigned to the DEA Metro Narcotics Task Force/Salt Lake City Narcotics Group 5, as the Group Supervisor. Sgt. Sturzenegger has served as a patrol officer in the Liberty and Pioneer Patrol divisions, as a Narcotics Detective, a Vice Detective, a Community Intelligence Unit officer, a Task Force Officer with the DEA Metro Narcotics Task Force, a patrol Sergeant in the Pioneer division and as the Narcotics Sergeant. Sgt. Sturzenegger is also a Spanish speaker and has been the part of numerous investigations and prosecutions of Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the State of Utah, and throughout the United States. Sgt. Sturzenegger has been a UNOA member since 2001. Sgt. Sturzenegger currently resides in Tooele County.