About me
Derek Marsh retired from the Westminster Police Department, CA, in 2013, as Deputy Chief after more than 26 years of service. In 2004, he co-founded the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF). He served as the co-chair of the OCHTTF from 2004-12, where he developed and taught courses in human trafficking (HT), supervised HT investigations, assisted in creating anti-HT DVDs for state and federal grants, wrote and managed HT grants, and provided Congressional testimony as an expert witness. Derek Marsh was the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellow in HT from 2015 through 2018, researching how HT task forces investigate labor trafficking cases and examining ECM Task Force collaborations and their dynamics. He works now as the Associate Director of the GCWJ. He focuses on GCWJ’s online Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate program, grant writing and developing and providing local, national and global anti-HT outreach and training programs for first responders. He also teaches a variety of criminal justice courses for undergraduates. He has presented across California and the United States, Saipan, Italy, Argentina, Romania, Greece, Rwanda and Kenya (the latter two as a consultant with the UNODC). He has an M.A. in Human Behavior, an M.P.A. in Police Management & Leadership, a graduate certificate in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the FBINA, Class #224.