Association of Police Officer Paramedics of the United States

Joe Malouf M.A., B.S., A.A.S. TEMS-Tactical-Paramedic

President & CEO

 

          Mr. Malouf was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, and he moved to Tennessee in 1996 where he began his career. Mr. Malouf completed paramedic school at Tennessee Technological University and graduated from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy class #845 in 1998. He served as a police officer / paramedic in Tennessee and later moved back to Michigan in 2001. He went on to complete his associates degree in law enforcement at Macomb College, a bachelors degree in public administration with cum laude honors at Central Michigan University, masters degree in criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and he studied at the Ph. D. level in law enforcement intelligence and homeland security at Michigan State University. Mr. Malouf completed four internships - one as a patrolman, one as a detective, one working for the prosecutor's office as a criminal analyst and one completing clinical rotations flying with Erlanger Life Force II. Data he collected as a criminal analyst was later used by local police, state police, the regional drug task force and DEA for the purposes of drug interdiction operations in central Michigan. Mr. Malouf also studied profiling of serial rapist homicide offends in graduate school.

 

Mr. Malouf holds several degrees in law enforcement and has a combined 19 years of experience as a police officer / EMT-paramedic. He has served on an ambulance responding to 911 calls and served on a critical care transfer team. He worked as a trauma team paramedic at a level II trauma center in Detroit, and designed a paramedic FTO program and authored the training manual for local government. Aside from law enforcement and emergency medicine, Mr. Malouf has also worked as an investigator at a law office investigating personal injury and wrongful death cases. Some of his career accomplishments include treating an estimated 200 gunshot wound victims as a paramedic in Detroit, delivering three babies in the backseats of cars, serving as a scene commander on multicasualty incidents, and he had a 100% conviction rate in criminal court while serving as a police officer.

 

Recognizing a lack of both the national organizing of cross-trained police officer paramedics, and a lack of training to teach police officers how to keep themselves and victims of violent acts alive, Mr. Malouf founded the Association in attempt to increase medical training for police officers and to promote the occupation of police officer / paramedics. Mr. Malouf is also a General Dynamics Tactical-Ordnance Simunitions Reality-based Police Training Instructor. He and his business partner have created a hybrid Tactical Emergency Casualty Care / Simunitions Reality-based Training program to teach police officers and paramedics how to respond to active shooter events (ASE), with an emphasis on active school shooters and treating children and adults that may fall victim to an ASE. At this time Mr. Malouf is also the CEO of Malouf Films that is currently developing the series D.P.D. Echo 1 that follows two police officer paramedics that work the night shift for Detroit Police Department.