LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERT
Derek Pacifico is a retired Sergeant after 22 plus years with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in Southern California, which included 6 years as a Homicide Detective. He ultimately retired from active service as an East Tennessee Police Chief with a total of 24 years of real police service. Derek can provide Expert Consultation and Testimony in civil rights cases, police procedural policies and investigations, homicide and murder investigations, officer involved shootings, crime scene investigations, use of force allegations, government corruption and general criminal case investigations.
Specialized Investigative Services:
- Criminal Cases Investigations
- Specialized Civil Investigations
- Interview & Interrogation Expert
- Use of Force Expert
- Homicide and Suspicious Death Investigations
- Crime Scene re-investigations
- Corporate and Government Corruption Investigations
- *Other Special Investigations
Need some help in a criminal defense case, or in a plaintiff matter with an excessive use of force /civil rights violation case? Let PACIFICO INVESTIGATIONS help you prepare the best case possible.
With many years of experience investigating Internal Affairs allegations, Homicide, Suicides, and Suspicious Deaths, Officer Involved Shootings, and law enforcement Use of Force case, PACIFICO INVESTIGATIONS can help you prepare for your case, prepare your client, conduct further investigation and get to the truth! We have spent countless hours in court in preliminary hearings, pre-trial motions, and of course riding second chair during countless murder trials as the Court-Recognized Investigating Officer for Trial.
With many years of experience investigating Internal Affairs allegations, Homicide, Suicides, and Suspicious Deaths, Officer Involved Shootings, and law enforcement Use of Force case, PACIFICO INVESTIGATIONS can help you prepare for your case, prepare your client, conduct further investigation and get to the truth! We have spent countless hours in court in preliminary hearings, pre-trial motions, and of course riding second chair during countless murder trials as the Court-Recognized Investigating Officer for Trial.
PACIFICO INVESTIGATIONS can assist your litigation team!
- Preview your case information before you take on a client's allegation to determine potential pitfalls
- Conduct a preliminary interview with your client or witness to determine their truthfulness using advanced interview and interrogation techniques.
- Locate and interview supplemental witnesses
- Review recorded interviews and render opinions
- Re-examine evidence and render EXPERT opinions
- Re-examine crime scene photos and render EXPERT opinions
- Provide general advice to counsel on a winning strategy
* As a member of the Specialized Investigations Division of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Derek Pacifico was often tasked with "other special investigations" per the Office of the Sheriff. These high-profile, extremely sensitive, often politically charged cases were only trusted to a certain few of elite investigators.