Connecticut Alliance To Benefit Law Enforcement

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CABLE Faculty

Elliot B. Spector, Esq.

Elliot B. Spector, President and Treasurer of the CT Criminal Law Foundation, is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, University of Hartford and University of Connecticut School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1981. Mr. Spector was also a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force School of Military Science, and was honorably discharged from the Air Force as a 1st Lieutenant. Mr. Spector has over thirty years of law enforcement experience as a police officer, police instructor and an attorney representing the law enforcement community.

Mr. Spector specializes in Police Civil Liability and has presented the Civil Rights Update on behalf of the Legal Officers Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police to police and legal groups from across the country annually, since 1992. He is the past-Chair of the Legal Officers Section of the IACP and served on its Executive Board. He is a member of the CPCA, and serves on its Legislative, Accreditation and Private Security Committees. Mr. Spector has been updating the Connecticut Law Enforcement Officers Field manual (“The Red Book”) since 1987, and has written numerous articles for national and state law enforcement magazine.