Ken Fitch has worked as a sworn peace officer in Los Angles County for the last 15 years.  His experience includes corrections, patrol, investigations, and as an instructor.   While working as an instructor he taught and facilitated courses for both CA Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) and CA Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).  For STC he developed a curriculum and taught courses on identifying and interacting with mentally ill inmates, first aid and CPR, report writing, crime scene management, and ethics, among others.  For POST he worked as an instructor and program manager for the 832 P.C. certification program, and first aid/CPR program.  He was the first one in the state of California to have a first aid training program certified under the new 2015 AHA and title 22 standards.  Ken is a graduate of the CA POST Master Instructor Certification Course (MICC) class nine.  MICC certification involves nearly 400 hours of classroom instruction and can take several years to complete.

As an investigator, he has specialized in the areas of child abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking.  He has worked on regional multi-agency task forces and teaches investigative techniques in the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigations child abuse and sexual assault courses.  Ken has also been a Terrorism Liasion Officer (TLO) coordinator for many years and has taught on the topics and terrorism, transnational crime, and emergency management.  He has taught criminal justice courses as an adjunct professor at La Sierra University and formerly served as a Public Safety Commissioner in Riverside County.

Ken possesses a bachelor's degree in criminal justice management, a master's in public administration, and is currently a Ph.D. student in the dissertation phase researching human trafficking abatement at Pepperdine University.  He has taken extensive professional development in the fields of leadership and organizational development and has an Executive Certificate of Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  Ken has been published on the topics of digital surveillance and gang graffiti, and avoiding biases in child abuse investigations.