Joe Pannullo

Joe Pannullo is a recently retired Police Officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, where he worked for 21 years. He spent the last 17 1/2 years as a Detective assigned to the Narcotics Section. During his 17 1/2 years in the Narcotics Section, Joe was assigned to the Clandestine Lab Team and Street Level Narcotics Team, was a sworn Federal Task Force Officer (TFO) assigned to a DEA Task Force for five years and was a Training Coordinator for the Narcotics Section. 

Joe worked undercover for ten years both on the Street Team dealing with low & mid-level dealers as well as working undercover on the DEA Task Force dealing with mainly Cartel Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO). He is a certified expert witness by the courts for clandestine drug labs, undercover operations, and general narcotics-related operations. At the beginning of 2012, Joe was selected to become one of only 12 members (2 teams of 6 negotiators) of LVMPD’s Crisis Negotiator Team (CNT) after attending their 40-hour CNT School. Joe spent his final six years on CNT (which was an extra duty assignment along with his Narcotics assignment) and had responded to more than 300 hostages and/or crisis-related barricades.
 
During his tenure as a Narcotic Investigator and a Crisis Negotiator, Joe learned various methods to exploit social media websites and smartphone applications to quickly gather intelligence on the targets of his investigations or the subjects that he was negotiating with. Based on these experiences, Joe began teaching Social Media Investigations for LVMPD and other agencies in the surrounding area.
 
Joe retired from LVMPD to pursue his passion for teaching and training other law enforcement personnel. He believes his training and experiences working for one of the top police departments in the United States, will greatly benefit other police officers and agencies to learn different police concepts that can improve the way some do police work and possibly prevent a tragedy from happening through safer methods. Joe has been a law enforcement instructor for over eight years and was hired to teach with Professional Law Enforcement Training in January 2019.
 
Joe received numerous awards and accommodations to include the Medal of Honor, Meritorious Service Award, and the Life Saving Award. In 2014, Joe was chosen for the Red Ribbon Narcotics Detective of the Decade Award, which is named in honor of DEA Agent Kiki Camarena killed in the line of duty.