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Michael O. Hawkins, J.D.
A former South Carolina State Constable, Mike was
admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1972. He practiced law for over a decade as a trial lawyer in both State and Federal
Courts. Mike is admitted to practice before the courts of South Carolina, the U.S. District
Court for South Carolina, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1985 Mike became an Agent for the
U.S. Naval Investigative Service and conducted felony level criminal, espionage and counter-terrorism investigations in the
U.S., Europe and Central America. He then became a Supervisory Criminal Investigator at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center where he trained
thousands of Federal, State, Local and International criminal investigations students.
While there, he was selected by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Treasury and State to be an instructor in Law Enforcement
Management and Leadership at the International Law
Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungry where he taught mid and upper level law enforcement executives from the
former Soviet Block countries. After leaving Federal service, Mike became a Senior
Judicial Educator for the State of Washington before becoming
the Chief Legal Counsel for a government contractor responsible for the detection and investigation of Medicare fraud in thirteen
states and three Pacific territories.
Since opening The Hawkins Group, Mike has been involved in a wide variety of investigations in the Seattle area including
a large number of criminal defense cases in the Washington and Federal Courts.
For a listing of some of Mike's educational, professional
and training background click here. Mike Hawkins - Education
Michael J. Jaquish
Former Okanogan, WA Assistant
Police Chief, Mike has spent his entire career in law enforcement and security. He is a graduate of the Washington State
Basic Police Academy and had completed addtional instruction from the FBI, the WA Criminal Justice Training Commission, the
US Diplomatic Security Service and many more agencies. In the private sector, Mike served as the National Strike Force
Supervisor for the Wackenhut Corporation and was the Deputy General Manager for Security Operations at the US Embassy in Monrovia,
Liberia. He has also been the Director of Security at the US Embassy in Banjul, Gambia where he had a security force
of nearly 500. Part of his duties were to provide security to the NASA Space Shuttle abort landing site in Gambia.
Well known in Washington's
private security industry, Mike owned and operated Security Training Services International, served as the Security Supervisor
for Brink's Incorporated, and has authored a Security Training Manual for Washington State Security Officers.
Mike is an extremely qualified
individual with vast experience in law enforcement, security and investigations as well as being an outstanding trainer.
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