Barton Lemansky
Bio
Mr. Lemansky has proudly served as a sworn member of the Pennsylvania State Police for over thirty years. The Pennsylvania State Police is the ninth largest police department in the United States and one of the oldest. The Pennsylvania State Police academy is a twenty-six-week, residential training program conducted in the paramilitary tradition.
Following graduation from the academy in 1995, Mr. Lemansky served as a patrolman for exactly twenty years. In this capacity, Mr. Lemansky functioned as a first responder and conducted proactive enforcement activities in both urban centers and rural areas of expansive geography. In twenty years as a patrolman, Mr. Lemansky responded to thousands of calls for service and served as the primary investigator of hundreds of investigations which included traffic collisions, assaults, burglaries, thefts, property crimes, missing persons, and drug related offenses.
Mr. Lemansky served as first responder to, and assisted in the investigation of, numerous homicides, rapes, and sexual assaults. Mr. Lemansky affected hundreds of custodial arrests, initiated prosecution for hundreds of offenses at the levels of summary, misdemeanor, and felony. Mr. Lemansky has, on hundreds of occasions, prepared and presented the Commonwealth’s case in summary trials at the District Court level, and testified in numerous pre-trial hearings and criminal trials in the Court of Common Pleas for numerous offenses including homicide.
Also, during twenty years as a patrol officer Mr. Lemansky was detached to numerous special assignments, projects and aggressive patrol initiatives including Operation Triggerlock and the City of Pittsburgh Gang Violence Task Force. At the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mr. Lemansky served in conjunction with the United States Secret Service and the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Division as a member of the security detail for Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Also, during twenty years as a patrolman, Mr. Lemansky was personally involved and participated in hundreds of police use-of-force encounters involving manual control tactics, chemical agents, impact weapons, police vehicles, and firearms.
In 2015, Mr. Lemansky competed for and earned a position as a full-time Pennsylvania State Police Academy Instructor. In this capacity, Mr. Lemansky has trained hundreds of cadets from the Pennsylvania State Police, Liquor Control Enforcement Officers, Municipal Police Officers, Wildlife Conservation Officers, and others.
As a basic training instructor, Mr. specialized in physical training, defensive tactics, use-of-force law and policy, and firearms. Specific topics of instruction included physical conditioning, hands-on arrest and control tactics, handcuffing, weapon retention / disarming and edged weapon defense.
In the role of basic training Platoon Leader, Mr. Lemansky was responsible for the paramilitary organization and discipline of several groups of cadets.
Mr. Lemansky has served as Acting Commander of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy Southwest Training Center.
As an in-service instructor, Mr. Lemansky contributed to the development of the department’s annual mandatory in-service training program for approximately four thousand-five hundred enlisted personnel, and personally facilitated and conducted that training for approximately one- thousand personnel per year.
Mr. Lemansky was an original developer and co-author of the departments F.O.C.I.S. program which introduced use of the armed confrontation simulator. I also developed and authored new curriculum for, and taught courses entitled Confronting the Armed Subject, Advanced Shotgun Tactics and Dynamics of Edged Weapon Confrontations.
In 2018, Mr. Lemansky became a member of the Pennsylvania State Police Use-of-Force Specialist Unit. The Use of Force Unit is responsible for development of all use-of-force related curriculum and training programs for Pennsylvania State Police cadets and enlisted personnel. The use-of-force unit is also responsible for regularly revising and updating department use-of-force policies and conducting in-depth analysis of officer involved shootings and serious police incidents. In this capacity, I have participated in consultation with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General and county District Attorney’s offices.
Mr. Lemansky serves or has served as Instructor or Master Instructor in the police use-of-force disciplines of firearms, hand-to-hand defensive tactics and less lethal force options.
Mr. Lemansky has studied and trained extensively throughout the country and earned numerous professional certifications, including:
Use-of-Force Instructor from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA
Specialized Protective Security – Dignitary Protection from the NYPD Academy in Queens, NY
Master Firearms Instructor from the Sig-Sauer Academy in Epping, NH
Analyst and Advanced Specialist Certifications from the Force Science Institute in Chicago, IL
Mr. Lemansky is proud to have served as a first responder to the Flight 93 terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Education
Master of Science - Legal Studies: Criminal Justice May 2016
California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
-Magna Cum Laude graduate
-Recipient of Presidential Scholar Award
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science May 1992
California University of Pennsylvania
-Minor: Philosophy
Organizations
SIGNIFICANT ASSIGNMENTS
- First responder to Flight 93 Terrorist Attack
Shanksville, PA September 11, 2001
- Dignitary Protection, G-20 Summit, Pittsburgh, PA
Served in conjunction with United States Secret Service and U.S.
Department of State, Diplomatic Security Division, in the protection
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia delegation. September 24 – 25, 2009
- Mobile Field Force
Member of specialized civil disorder unit, Democrat National Convention,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016