Soon after entering the Ph.D. program in June of 2000, Webb became Assistant Director of LEMIT. After 9/11 and the issuing of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD 5), he predicted the demand for Critical Incident Command Training for law enforcement as well as other critical response and support agencies. Over the course of the next few years, he established LEMIT’s Incident Command Simulation Training Program, as well as supervised the design and construction of the training complex. Webb now serves as the INCOSIT Program Director.

In addition to his administrative duties at the Criminal Justice Center, he also serves as Director of the National Resource Center for Police Corrections Partnerships, Faculty Member of the Illinois Law Enforcement Executive Institute, Lecturer for the International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell, New Mexico, and Doctoral Teaching Fellow for the College of Criminal Justice.

Webb joined the CJ Center after a distinguished career with the Police Service in the United Kingdom, where his last position was Chief Superintendent of Police. As a career police officer, Webb rose through the ranks of the 4500 person Devon and Cornwall Constabulary in the South West of England. In senior police administrative duties he played active roles in counter-terrorism planning, including marine counter-terrorism (classified); worked with overseas police departments in an advisory capacity on strategic planning; and developed artificial intelligence based computer systems to generate profiles of terrorists hiding within community populations.

Webb served as a grant reviewer for National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in 2005 and conducted a post Katrina Review on the Louisiana Department of Corrections for the National Institute of Corrections. He has had research grant and contract experience with the Police/Corrections Partnerships of the NIJ, US Marshals Service, Polish National Police, Texas Narcotics Control Program, Artificial Intelligence NIJ & BJA, and Project Spotlight.

Webb’s current research interests include: Police organizational arrangements; Critical decision-making; Human Trafficking and Competency Frameworks. He is scheduled to defend his dissertation: “Competency Frameworks: The Efficacy of their use to improve police performance,” fall of 2006.