About Joe Vandegrift

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Joe created Harmony Solutions to provide expert support, training and consulting services to organizations of all sizes in all industries. Now more than ever, safety, security and protection of an organization’s employees and customers and the general public is paramount.

Joe has dedicated his 36-year career to public service, having served police departments with distinction as a Patrolman, Corporal, Detective and Supervisory Sergeant. Seeing a vital, but unmet need in his community, Joe created his department’s Traffic Safety Unit with an emphasis on commercial truck enforcement, DUI and fatal crash investigations.

As a Detective, Joe was responsible for conducting in depth investigations of major crimes, civil complaints and serious or fatal crash investigations to determine cause. Joe has testified on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in hundreds of criminal cases at the district and common pleas level providing testimony at jury and non-jury trials as well as the civil arena.

Joe has been a member in good standing with the Central Delco Tactical Response Team (CDTRT), beginning his career as a basic entry operator. Joe attended and graduated the FBI Firearms Training Unit Sniper/Observer Program. Upon graduation, Joe was asked to return as a guest instructor which he did for seven years. During his tenure with CDTRT, Joe became the team’s primary sniper ending his 17 years with CDTRT as the team’s sniper coordinator.

Additional law enforcement training involved obtaining his Fatal Crash 

Reconstructionist Certification at the University of North Florida/Jacksonville. Joe also successfully graduated from New Mexico Technical College’s Response to Terrorist Bombing training along with FBI ALERRT active shooter response and crisis intervention management or CSIM.

 In addition to his traditional law enforcement background, Joe is also experienced in handling VIP escort and protection services, having provided such protection to several high-profile individuals while in the employ of two major VIP protection companies.

Joe has served as an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania teaching Criminological Theory as part of the university's Criminal Justice Master’s Program.

Joe received his B.A. in Liberal Arts with a minor in Criminal Justice at Neumann College in Aston, Pennsylvania and his M.S. in the Public Safety Environmental Sciences Program with an emphasis on Public Safety Mangement at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Licensed in the State of California, PI 189680.