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Chief Shults currently serves as a college police
administrator in a mountain community of Colorado. Shults earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His dissertation research examined how community policing is being taught in basic police academies. Shults earned a Master's in Public Services Administration from the University of Central Missouri after completimg am Associate and Bachelor's degrees in Criminal Justice Administration at UCM. Shults began his law enforcement training after US Army basic combat training by attending the US Army Military Police School. He served in the Missouri Army National Guard as a Military Police Investigator with MP and CID units before transferring to the US Air Force Reserves in air cargo. Staff Sergeant Shults served overseas operations in Germany, Japan, and Honduras as well as State Emergency Duty when activiated by Missouri's Governor. Shults won the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch award for outstanding recruit with his service to the MoArNG. Officer Shults was sworn in to his first civilian police position as an officer with the Warrensburg Police Department while still attending college. After a brief period of field training and his first six months as a patrol officer Shuts attended the Basic Law Enforcement Academy at the Missouri State Highway Patrol Training Academy in Jefferson City, MO. Shults later attended the MSHP's supervision school and served as class chaplain. While with WPD Shults served as shift supervisor, investigator, community relations officer, field training officer, and coordinator of reserve officers and interns. Shults ran for the elective office of sheriff and after a close race was appointed Chief of Police for the combined police services of two small Missouri towns. After serving there Shults retired briefly from law enforcement to work in the insurance and real estate appraisal business for a short time before accepting a position in Kansas City as head of the Tarkio College law enforcement program where he served as supervisor of admissions, lead instructor, and supervisor over adjunct faculty. Shults and his family next moved to Trinidad, Colorado to join the faculty of Trinidad State College where he taught academic courses and instructed in the Southern Colorado Law Enforcement Training Academy on the college grounds as well as extension courses and individual police training classes throughout southern Colorado. Shults attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Glynco, GA for instructor training in emergency vehicle operations. He also did a special study of computerized training of police officers with the California POST staff in Sacremento. While at Trinidad State, Shults worked as a police officer on a part-time basis with the Trinidad Police Department. He also continued post graduate studies taking courses at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Shults left teaching when he was appointed as Chief of Police for the City of Walsenburg, CO. During his tenure Chief Shults obtained much needed grant funding, reorganized the department, added a victim services unit, developed the supplemental tactics and response (S.T.A.R.) team, and increased the department to 18 members. Chief Shults wrote a weekly newspaper article but may be remembered most by being hospitilized at the end of his first full day at work after being struck by a car near the police station. Despite a broken leg, abrasions, and lacerations of the head and face he was back in the office in uniform the following Wednesday. Chief Shults returned to Missouri to become Professor Shults with appointment to the Administration of Justice faculty at Hannibal-LaGrange College, a small Baptist college in northeast Missouri next to the Mississippi river. During his tenure at HLG, Shults also served as Director of Security for the campus. In the community Shults was appointed as a reserve police officer for the City of Hannibal and a reserve deputy sheriff for the Marion County Sheriff's Department. He served both of the agencies as Chaplain and was a member of the IACP and the International Conference of Police Chaplains. He travelled to New York City in October of 2001 to volunteer for the United Way after the World Trade Center attacks and rode on patrol with NYPD. Shults also served as an appointed member of the Marion County 911 Board, and with the Coroner's Office as a Deputy Coroner. Professor Shults presented at the Las Vegas meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences on the topic of teaching collaboration in basic police academies in Colorado. He was a guest trainer in sexual harrassment awareness for the Missouri State Southern Baptist Convention staff. Shults also served as Site Director for the Missouri Sheriff's Associate Law Enforcement Training Academy hosted at HLG, and served on the advisory board and as adjunct faculty at the Law Enforcement Training Center of Moberly Area Community College. He was a member of the Missouri Narcotics Officer Association and served as the state organization's Chaplain. Shults' most recent appointment was as Director of Public Safety at Adams State College in Alamosa, CO. Chief Shults reorganized the DPS into the Adams State College Police Department and has prioritized training and collaboration with local law enforcement agencies. Chief Shults serves with several community organizations including the San Luis Valley Peace Officers Association, SLV Law Enforcement Training Foundation, SLV Drug Task Force, Crime Stoppers, Anti-Violence Committee, Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force, School Violence Prevention Committee, the ASC Incident Management Planning Committee, and the ASC Students of Concern Committee. Shults was appointed to the Colorado POST curriculum committee serving as a subject matter expert, and is active in the Colorado Association of Institutional Law Enforcement Directors and Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police. Shults serves as adjunct faculty for Kaplan University's graduate program in criminal justice. Dr. Shults has presented safety awareness training to churches, campuses, and other audiences. Dr. Shults has been published in several major newspapers and in widely read electronic newsletters. He recently published his first book "Is The Line Ready" a collection of famous quotes with commentary from Dr. Shults' perspective as a long time police professional.
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