Donald Anderson
As a law enforcement professional, you deserve to attend training courses taught by experts in the field. What worked 20 years ago may no longer be relevant, and you deserve an instructor who understands the modern challenges that cops face. This makes Donald Anderson an ideal instructor.
Donald Anderson is an active-duty lieutenant with the San Francisco Police Department currently assigned as a watch commander in the Patrol Division. He has been honing his experience ever since starting with the department in 2005. After serving as a patrol officer and an FTO, he was promoted to Sergeant in 2013. As a sergeant, he’s worked as both a patrol supervisor, investigator and full time assignment to the Crisis Intervention Team.
Donald is an instructor for our Response to the Non-Criminal Barricade: Disengagement and Special Relationships® and Modern Crisis Negotiations courses. These courses are all about innovative approaches to responding to the mentally ill in crisis and Donald is an expert in the field. He is the Executive Officer and one of four Team Leaders of San Francisco PD’s 40-officer Hostage/Crisis Negotiation Team. He is also a coordinator and instructor for his agency’s Crisis Intervention/De-escalation training program. Donald has years of experience responding to crisis incidents and uses his experiences to help students like you sky-rocket their skills.
Through many years of responding to critical incidents, Donald has witnessed first-hand why some incidents go well and others end poorly. He’s seen supervisors struggle with how to manage a critical incident. Donald combines those experiences with his careful study of current law and best practices. He has been recognized by the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training as a subject matter expert in de-escalation training. But, even with all this experience, Donald is a humble professional who sees his role as a guide. He is deeply committed to helping the Savage Training Group provide the very best training to law enforcement officers.
Donald and his team were featured in a Force Science Institute article about peacefully resolving crisis-related incidents. Read the article here.