Area(s) of Expertise: Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Disaster Management, Homeland Security, Major Crimes Investigations, Criminal Justice Labor Management Issues
Douglas A. Orr is a 30-year law enforcement veteran who has served as a commissioned law enforcement officer in South Carolina, Idaho, and Washington. He is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the years, Dr. Orr has assumed various roles such as Collision Reconstructionist, Street Crimes, Truancy, Sexual Assault and Polygraph. He retired in 2016 as a Detective in the Major Crimes Unit of the Spokane Police Department in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Orr now serves as the Department Head of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of North Georgia.
Dr. Orr also holds membership in the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), the American Society of Criminologists (ASC), and the Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG). He is nationally certified as a polygraph examiner through the American Polygraph Association and is certified as an EnCE computer forensic examiner. He is proficient with SPSS.
2020-Present
Department Head
Department of Criminal Justice
University of North Georgia
2020-Present
Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
University of North Georgia
2017-Present
Assistant Department Head
Department of Criminal Justice
University of North Georgia
2016-Present
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
University of North Georgia
2006-2016
Adjunct Professor
Department of Sociology
Gonzaga University
2006-2012
Adjunct Professor
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Washington State University – Spokane
2004-2016
Pacific Research & Consulting LLC,
Spokane, Washington.
1996-2016
Spokane Police Department,
Spokane, Washington.
1992-1996
Idaho State Police,
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
1987-1992
Greenville Police Department,
Greenville, South Carolina.