POST Director Paul D. Schultz
Director Paul Schultz has over 35 years of law enforcement experience that he brings to his position as Director of Peace Officer Standards and Training. His career began as a police cadet with the Englewood Police Department followed by a lengthy career with the Thornton Police Department where he served in numerous assignments and retired as a Police Commander in 1995. In 1995 he was appointed Chief of Police of the La Vista, Neb., Police Department where he served until 2002 when he was appointed Chief of Police in Lafayette. He served as Lafayette Chief of Police until 2010.
Director Schultz has a Master's Degree in Administration of Justice from the University of Colorado at Denver and is a graduate of the FBI Central States Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, The FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association training program, The Police Executive Research Forums Senior Management Institute for Police and the New England Institute for Law Enforcement Management.
Director Schultz has served as President of both the Police Chiefs Association of Nebraska and the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police. In 1999 he was selected as Police Chief of the Year in Nebraska and in 2000 he was a Webber Seavey award winner for Quality in Law Enforcement. In 2007 he was selected as the Boulder County Chief of Police of the Year. He has served on the advisory committee to the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Small Agency Technical Assistance Project and several local and state law enforcement committees in Colorado. He has also been an adjunct faculty at several Colorado and Nebraska Colleges for the past 20 years. He is a lead instructor for the Southern Police Institute and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
In 2010 he was appointed as the Director of Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training.