LEOPRD Leadership

Julio E. Schrodel is a Sergeant with the Cape Coral Police Department and is assigned to the Planning and Research Unit. Julio is an Advanced Certified Law Enforcement Planner and was the Vice-President of the Florida/Southeastern United States Chapter of the International Association of Law Enforcement Planners. His 10 years of police experience include 3 ½ years with the New York City Police Department’s Auxiliary Emergency Services Unit (Truck 10, Staten Island, N.Y.), and the Emergency Medical Stabilization Unit as an Auxiliary Police Officer. Julio was also a State of Florida certified Paramedic with additional certifications in Flight Physiology (Flight Paramedic) and Tactical Operations/Special Operations/SWAT Medicine and is a board registered MedicoLegal Death Investigator.

Mr. Schrodel has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Florida Gulf Coast University and is a DeVry Technology Institute graduate. Julio attended Villanova University and completed the Master’s Certificate in Six Sigma methodologies as well as the Green Belt and Lean Sensei programs, and is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. As an undergrad student, he developed the preliminary curriculum for Death Investigation Studies for Florida Gulf Coast University and has co-authored the Pharmacology section of the EMS Training Manual for the Collier County Emergency Medical Service.

As a strategic planner, his Law Enforcement Planning & Research areas of specialization include: law enforcement budgeting, policy development, operations and staffing analysis, human resource management and applied research, and subject matter expert for the Florida Benchmark Consortium in program evaluation and performance measurement.

Currently, he is involved in a National Science Foundation grant funded research project in Computational Linguistics using machine translation and speech recognition to translate incoming telephone calls from a given language to English for Disaster Response and 9-1-1 Systems.