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Dockins Shares Gang Task Force Experiences
Jeremy Dockins ’07, special agent in charge of the GBI West Georgia Gang Task Force, spoke to the Kiwanis Club of LaGrange in February. In his current role, he oversees the agents, budget and daily operations of the unit.
Dockins was hired by the GBI in 2007 as a special agent assigned to the State Drug Task Force to work undercover narcotics. After the task force was disbanded in May of 2009, he was assigned to the GBI’s Columbus regional investigative office where he worked as a special agent and crime scene specialist for a little more than seven years.
He later worked as the assistant special agent in charge of the GBI’s West Metro Regional Drug Enforcement Office, assisting with the supervision of the staff responsible for a 36-county area from Columbus, Georgia, to Tennessee.
He currently is a P.O.S.T. certified instructor, a Use of Force instructor, a member of the GBI Special Enforcement Team, a member of the GBI Body Recovery Team, the northern vice president of the Georgia Narcotics Officers Association and overseer of the GBI Peer Support Team.
He is a graduate of the National Forensic Academy (NFA), Class 30, through the University of Tennessee, and he earned a master’s in public safety administration from Columbus State University. He is married with two children and lives in LaGrange and attends Wesley Methodist Church.