Dan Johnson
Director of Investigations

Dan Johnson has over 20 years of law enforcement experience. As an active law enforcement officer for a large agency, he has risen to the rank of Lieutenant and has worked in multiple divisions including corrections, patrol, criminal and administration. His strengths include special investigations (criminal and administrative); undercover operations; digital evidence; child exploitation; interview and interrogation; report writing; expert witness testimony; policy and procedure creation and development; and hostage and crisis negotiation.

Dan created his agency’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit. In addition, he founded a multi-agency ICAC task force comprised of state, local and federal law enforcement partners. Under his leadership, the task force received numerous awards including national recognition for outstanding work from former United States Attorney General, Eric Holder. He served with distinction as a task force officer with the United States Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and was responsible for conducting all federal and local criminal investigations with an international nexus. This included child exploitation, money laundering and complex criminal investigations targeting organizations responsible for the importation of dangerous and deadly amounts of illegal substances.

Dan has been qualified as an expert witness in both state and federal court and has a vast amount of experience providing courtroom testimony. He worked with local partners in the community in the creation and administration of a mental health preventative maintenance program for investigators assigned to his command, a project he is very passionate about. Dan believes in the identification of stakeholders and collaboration to accomplish goals in a unified fashion. Dan has received numerous accolades throughout his career including Deputy and Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, has a bachelors degree from Ashland University, a graduate certificate from the University of Virginia, and is a graduate of the 285th session of the FBI National Academy.