Dr. Currie Myers

Dr. Currie Myers has a combined 35 years of professional experience as a state trooper, special agent, sheriff, criminologist, consultant, professor, university executive, and business executive. Dr. Myers ended his law enforcement career as the sheriff of Johnson County, Kansas which serves a population of more than 650,000 citizens in the Kansas City Metropolitan area and is one of the largest sheriffs’ offices in the Midwest with nearly 750 employees and a jail population of approximately 1,000 inmates. He is a nationally recognized expert in criminal justice public policy as well as organizational management and leadership and has spoken at more than 1,000 local, state, and national conferences. He is an expert witness in both state and Federal court and has testified on numerous occasions. Prior to being sheriff, Dr. Myers was a special agent with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), a state trooper with the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) and a Department of Defense consultant for the Wexford Group International.

Academically, Dr. Myers has developed and taught more than 25 courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level including disciplines within criminal justice, criminology, organizational management, leadership, ethics, business, and in the humanities. As a former senior university executive (school dean and associate vice president), he has rolled out new degree programs, new product lines and program concepts, conducted program reviews, and has development outcomes-based, applied learning curriculum in various forms of modality.

Dr. Myers is a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Practitioner and has been a lead consultant in hundreds of security and public safety related projects, to include design, implementation, logistics, administration and operations. In 2016 Dr. Myers was named a Vice President with The Kincaid Group, a transportation and technology services consortium. In January of 2020, he moved into a consulting role with the Group and now operates his own consulting firm, called Sheriff Myers & Associates (SMA).