Alex Toth

Background

About Alex Toth

I have over 30 years of military, local, and federal law enforcement experience. After serving in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Investigator/Special Reaction Team Member and as an Orlando Police Officer/Detective/Emergency Response Team Member I joined the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Special Agent. I retired from the DEA in August of 2015 after 25 and a half years of service. At the time of my retirement I was assigned as the Assistant Regional Director in charge of operations in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile. Following my service with the DEA I accepted a PhD Presidential Fellowship in the Criminology Department at the University of South Florida. This is the highest fellowship awarded in the university and I was the first Criminology student to ever receive it. I graduated with my PhD in Criminology from the University of South Florida in 2019. While working on my PhD I served as a Visiting Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at The University of Tampa, and after graduating I became a tenure track Assistant Professor at the institution. I accepted an offer to be the Dean of the Public Safety Center at Seminole State College of Florida in August of 2020. My areas of expertise and research interests include: public safety education, policing, public safety management, transnational crime, international drug trafficking, terrorism, corrections, counter-surveillance, security management, and risk mitigation.