Board of Directors

President - Mark Parker
Mark Parker is President of the International Narcotics Interdiction Association (INIA/Skynarc). INIA is an international organization for law enforcement officers working drug interdiction. Mark is an Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NC SBI) and is the Statewide Drug Coordinator for the Bureau. He has been an Agent with the NC SBI since 1995 and has worked all phases of drug investigations, primarily focusing his career in the drug interdiction field. During his career, he has worked all phases of interdiction, to include airport, bus, train, parcels, and hotels. In 2001, he received the INIA Interdiction Officer of the Year award. Mark is also assigned as a Task Force Agent in the Raleigh DEA Resident Office since 2002. While in the Raleigh DEA office he has helped in starting up two Interstate highway interdiction units (I-95 and I-85), which have been very successful. He is responsible in assisting these units in all asset forfeiture matters and managing these cases. Mark is a graduate from NC State University and is a certified state instructor. He has lectured on all phases of criminal interdiction throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Indonesia, Russia, Laos, England, Ecuador, and Peru. Mark can be contacted at mark@inia.org

Executive Director - Steve Sloan
Steve Sloan has been a member of the San Diego Police Department for over 26 years. He started working narcotic detection canines in 1985 as the first narcotic detection canine handler for the department. In 1988, Steve developed and taught the first narcotic detection canine class for the San Diego Police Department. Steve was the lead narcotic detection canine trainer for the San Diego Police Department from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 Detective Sloan was promoted to Detectives and transferred to the Narcotics Section. Steve was assigned to the San Diego International Airport Harbor Narcotic Task Force as a Detective/Canine handler from 1993 to 1996. Steve developed a narcotic detection canine program for the Investigation Bureau of the San Diego Police Department and currently has three additional narcotic detection canines assigned for training. Steve was assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration, San Diego Integrated Narcotic Task Force Parcel Interdiction team from 1996 to 2004. He was assigned parcel/freight investigations for eight years and is currently assigned again to the San Diego Airport interdiction team. Steve is the current president of the California Narcotic Canine Association, certifying official, executive board member and is one of its founding members. Steve is also a member of the board of directors of the International Narcotic Interdiction Association. Steve was the California Narcotic Officers Association Region IV Chairman from 1992 through 1996. Steve has instructed for the Drug Enforcement Administration, JETWAY, SKYNARC, INIA, California Narcotic Officers Association, Arizona Narcotic Officers Association, California Narcotic Canine Association, State of California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement and San Diego Police Department. Steve has acquired extensive knowledge and expertise in working narcotic detection canines, canine case law, canine court testimony, parcel interdiction and airport interdiction. . Sloan is an internationally recognized expert on narcotic detection dogs and their training. He has lectured throughout the United States, as well as in Brazil, Germany, Egypt, Mexico and Saipan Steve has testified as a State of California and Federal court recognized expert in the fields of narcotic canine detection and training and parcel interdiction.
E-mail - steve@inia.org

Ed Schumacher
Ed Schumacher is a retired Detective Sergeant with the Narcotics Bureau of the Miami-Dade Police Department and has thirty-one (32) years of law enforcement experience including twenty-four (24) years of narcotics investigation experience. Ed most recently served as the Sergeant supervisor of the Domestic Interdiction Unit at the Miami International Airport and also the supervisor of the Miami-Dade P.D. Kidnapping Squad. He has been a State of Florida certified law enforcement instructor and has taught at the Southeast Criminal Justice Institute, Miami-Dade Community College Criminal Justice Program, Miami-Dade P.D. Training Bureau and the Drug Enforcement Administrations Jetway and Basic Narcotic Investigators Programs. Ed was a pioneer in the interdiction field and is an expert in airport, bus and train interdiction. Ed is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Narcotics Interdiction Association.

David Rivers
David Rivers is a Detective Sergeant with the Oklahoma City Police Department and has seventeen years of law enforcement experience, including 11 years of narcotics investigative experience. He has a degree in Police Science from the Oklahoma State University. David is currently part of the Oklahoma City Drug Interdiction Unit. He is a State of Oklahoma and DEA certified law enforcement instructor and has instructed bus and parcel interdiction at Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs A-One Conference, California Narcotics Canine Association, Drug Enforcement Administration's Jetway Programs and SkyNarc conferences. David is a certified drug detector dog handler and is currently a drug detector dog certifier for the State of Oklahoma. E-mail - dave@inia.org

Benny Goodman
Benny recently retired from the Metro Nashville Police Department. His last year was in the Special Investigations Division/Narcotics Section and prior to that he was assigned to the DEA Task Force for 10 years - most of which was at the Nashville Airport Interdiction Unit. Benny retired from the PD on July 15th, 2005 with 28 years of service. On July 18th, 2005 he took a position with the 21st Judicial Drug Task Force and was assigned to the DEA Task Force, and now back at the Nashville Airport.
E-mail - bentn55@hotmail.com

Carl Wall
Carl began his law enforcement career in 1993 with the North Carolina State University Public Safety. In 1994 Carl was hired as a Deputy Sheriff for the Wake County Sheriff's Office and worked patrol for nearly 5 years. In 1998 Carl was hired as a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and was assigned to work Narcotics. Initially working in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Carl was assigned as a DEA Task Force Officer in the Wilmington Resident Office in July of 2000. Today, Carl continues to be apart of the DEA Task Force in the Raleigh R/O and is assigned to Wake County working both highway and airport interdiction. Carl has been apart of some of North Carolina's largest money seizures including a 2.2 & 1.5 million dollar seizure.

Julie A. Cassidy
Julie A. Cassidy joined the Dallas Police Dept. on June 13, 1985. The first seven and half years on the department was spent in a patrol capacity which also involved field training recruits who just graduated from the Academy, as well as, assisting VICE on prostitution stings. Two years was spent teaching Defensive Tactics and Physical Training at the Dallas Police Academy. In December 1994, she transferred to the Narcotics Division, Love Field Narcotics Task Force. Acquired their first drug dog in May of 1995. The second drug dog, "Sundance", worked for 6 1/2 years; working interdiction at Love Field, Amtrak, Greyhound, El Conejo Bus lines, UPS, FEDEX, and began freight investigations which became successful and eventually lead to INIA as an instructor. Julie has been an instructor and member of INIA since 1999. In 2002 she transferred to the Diversion Unit within Narcotics, investigating RX Fraud including investigating doctors/nurses/dentists/pharmacists. She also teaches the narcotics section of the Academy training for recruits (Dallas Police Academy) - an 8 hour course. Julie has a bachelor of Science degree from Montana State University.