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Scott Allen, Ph.D. - Miami-Dade Police Department

Scott W. Allen, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and has been the Senior Staff Psychologist for the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) for 21 years. He is also a consultant to several federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, and Customs, in the areas of post-trauma intervention and hostage negotiation. Dr. Allen is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, and received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an internship at the Yale School of Medicine and the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center-West Haven.

He has many publications in the area of law enforcement, especially pertaining to suicide, post-trauma intervention, and various aspects of crisis/hostage negotiation. He is the Past President of Division 18-Police and Public Safety Psychology Section. Dr. Allen is also an adjunct faculty member of Nova University and Florida International University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in abnormal psychology, and police psychology. He also provides clinical supervision for doctoral students at his department-sponsored practicum site at MDPD. Dr. Allen has been actively involved in the development and facilitation of the MDPD training initiative with the Florida Regional Community Policing Institute in Managing Encounters with the Mentally Ill for all sworn police officers.