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Britton Schaefer
Senior Investigator, Bureau of Investigation
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Senior Investigator Britton Schaefer is assigned to the Joint Regional Intelligence Center as the terrorism liaison officer coordinator for all municipal law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County. He previously was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) Al-Qaeda Squad and Threat Squad in Los Angeles from August 2004 to May 2009.
As a member of the JTTF, he was a special deputy U.S. marshal, holding national security top secret clearances. Schaefer and LADA Senior Investigator Daewon Kim created a counterterrorism training program, which they conduct for the Criminal Justice Institute and other major training entities. The program is certified by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Schaefer and Kim have received more than 500 hours of specialized counterterrorism training from various local, state, federal and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Prior to joining LADA in 2000, Schaefer served as a deputy sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for six years. Schaefer also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 17 years, achieving the rank of major. He was twice deployed to the Middle East to conduct operations in Turkey, Israel and Egypt, including one deployment in support of Operation Desert Storm/Shield. Schaefer is a graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration.
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