
Carolyn Zapor has extensive experience in criminal intelligence analysis and law enforcement in both Canada and the United States. She has taught a number of distance education classes in Criminology at the undergraduate level while completing her Master’s thesis on child sexual abuse.
Ms. Zapor received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Queen’s University and her Master of Arts degree in Criminology from Simon Fraser University.
After completing her Master of Arts degree, Ms. Zapor worked as a Research Officer in the Policy and Analysis Section of the Attorney General’s Office in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was specifically assigned the task of researching, developing and proposing national money laundering legislation. This research resulted in a comprehensive report being presented to Parliamentary representatives at the provincial level.
Ms. Zapor was later assigned to the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit – a special law enforcement branch under the Attorney General’s Office in Vancouver. As a Criminal Intelligence Analyst of the Organized Crime Unit, she worked extensively with both Canadian and U.S. law enforcement agencies on high profile organized crime cases. Ms. Zapor became very knowledgeable on credit card fraud and spoke at numerous law enforcement conferences and workshops in both Canada and the United States. She received an acknowledgement in the book Organized Plastic Counterfeiting written by Chief Inspector John Newton of New Scotland Yard.
In 1993, Ms. Zapor joined the Phoenix Police Department as an Intelligence Analyst. She worked on many sensitive and complex criminal investigations. Later she was promoted and supervised the activities of the Research and Analysis Section of the Organized Crime Bureau Intelligence Unit. While there, she was also selected to represent the Phoenix Police Department at the first Violent Criminal Apprehension Program Training Program for Intelligence/Crime Analysts at the FBI.
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