Hazen, Alan (MS)
Strategic Security and Protection Management
Mr. Hazen comes to Henley-Putnam University with 33 years of international and domestic law enforcement experience. He has been teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level since 2002.
His education includes an A.A.S. degree in Police Science from the State University of New York at Farmingdale, a B.S. and M.S. degree in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky and had two years of study toward my PhD at Fordham University, Bronx, New York, before joining the federal government.
Mr .Hazen’s background involves working with the New York State Prosecutor’s Office as a Senior Investigator, this office investigated corruption in the New York City Criminal Justice system. He was with the United States, State Department, Agency for International Development, Office of the Inspector General, serving as the Regional Inspector General in Charge of Africa/Investigation from 1979 until 1983 and the RIG in Charge of Egypt from 1984 to 1987. This office investigated waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct within the AID program.
Working as a Supervisory Special Agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of Professional Responsibility in Washington D.C., which investigated all allegations of corruption within INS led to working within the newly created U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, serving as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington D.C. field office from 1989 until 1995. In 1996, he was promoted to the Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office, which covered the Southeast United States, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. We provided training in detecting, investigating and prosecuting corruption cases to judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers from these foreign countries. Mr. Hazen remained in this position until his retirement in 2005.
During his 33-year career, he has investigated, supervised and managed numerous investigations of organized crime groups, gangs, cartels and terrorist organizations, which related to employee misconduct and criminal behavior. He has also traveled to over 40 countries while working for the U.S. government.