GREG THOMPSON, DIRECTOR OF FORENSIC SERVICES

Greg Thompson serves as the Director of Forensic Services for the San Diego Sheriff's Department. He is responsible for the oversight of a full service forensic laboratory, including Crime Scene Investigations. He directs a staff of 60 forensic scientists and field evidence technicians. Among his initiatives is the creation of a Cold Case Forensic Team to examine unsolved homicides.

Appointed to this post in January of 2003, Mr. Thompson previously served as the Assistant District Attorney for San Diego County. There he directed all prosecution, investigative and support operations with a staff of 1200 and a budget of $92 million. His pioneer efforts include such high profile successes as community prosecution, gang injunctions, and truancy enforcement. He led the DA's Major Case Review Team, which reviewed all death-eligible murder cases, and directed aggressive crime prevention campaigns to protect the elderly and children. Notably, Protecting Children On-Line became the first public outreach effort of its kind in the nation aimed at protecting kids from Internet stalkers.

Mr. Thompson is the only Californian to have served at the highest appointed position in three urban prosecutors' offices. Before coming to San Diego, he served from 1986 through 1992 as Chief Deputy in the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, the world's largest local prosecution agency. From that position he developed strategies against gang violence, street drug trafficking and for early intervention in juvenile crime. During the riots in the spring of 1992, he led the District Attorney's Task Force on Civil Disorder and has written and lectured on police and prosecution response to major civil disorder.

From 1983 to 1986 Mr. Thompson served as Executive Director of the California District Attorneys Association where he directed governmental affairs and legislative action. He serves as a lecturer at San Diego State University, where he teaches courses in criminal justice administration.

He is well known in criminal justice circles through his extensive writings as an advocate for balancing targeted enforcement efforts with intervention and prevention strategies. He appears as the host and narrator in the film Threat Assessment and Management: A New Way of Thinking, which advocates a multi-disciplinary approach to workplace and family violence. He has conducted professional seminars in management and leadership.

Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Youth Athletic Center, a youth boxing club, in San Diego's South Bay area, and mentors at-risk youth at the center. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from University of Pacific's McGeorge School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Biola College.