Ossie Crenshaw

Ossie Crenshaw is a retired Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer with 32 years of diverse assignments and deep executive protection experience. Mr. Crenshaw’s police assignments include patrol, vice, detectives, narcotics, the Mounted Unit and service as a police instructor.

The vast majority of Mr. Crenshaw’s career, 22 years, was spent assigned to LAPD’s elite Metropolitan Division where he served as a SWAT Team member, and for 12 of those years as a SWAT Team Leader. In this capacity he was responsible for planning and leading tactical assignments including hostage rescue, high-risk warrant service, barricaded suspects, crime suppression and dignitary protection details.

Mr. Crenshaw is a U.S. Army veteran and attended Western Michigan University. He has completed instructor-level training in many areas including SWAT tactics and Crisis Negotiations. He has extensive training and experience in numerous disciplines such as weapon handling, close quarter combat, executive protection, surveillance and counter surveillance as well as tactical mission planning.