Randy has been involved in the delivery of emergency services for over twenty years as an EMT, paramedic and police officer.

In 1998 he was hired as a police officer / paramedic and is currently a Deputy Director of Public Safety / Police Captain in charge of the Investigative division and threat management. He was also a team commander on the Washington County SWAT team. In 2014 Randy co-founded and co-facilitates two community-based Threat Advisory Groups (TAG) in the Twin Cities metro area. He also created a Case Management Unit (CMU) in his own department that specializes in the long-term management of mental health cases and cases of concern for targeted violence–the goals of which are intervention, prevention, mitigation, and getting folks back on healthier paths.

Randy has attended Gavin de Becker and Associates’ Advanced Threat Assessment and Management Academy in Lake Arrowhead, California. He is also a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) and specializes in the assessment and management of targeted violence and threats. Areas of interest include: school violence, church violence, workplace violence, domestic violence, and stalking. Domestic violence lethality prevention and stalking prevention are his primary focus and he is working within the criminal justice system to encourage the use of threat assessment to efficiently focus limited resources and to give extra care and attention to situations that present an increased risk for violence and / or lethality.

In 2015 Randy became one of the first Certified Threat Managers (CTM) in the country through the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and currently serves on a federal task force as a Task Force Officer (TFO) in a Threat Assessment & Threat Management initiative. He can bee reached at randy@mcalistertm.com