Instructors

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor has 19 years law enforcement experience a medium sized agency in the Southeast side of Washington State, where he now serves as a Criminal Apprehension Sergeant.  For 18 years he has been assigned to the Tri-City Regional SWAT team, and is currently the Team Commander.  Sgt. Taylor has been involved in hundreds of tactical operations including the service of high risk search warrants, barricaded suspects, and hostage rescue operations.  For 11 years he was an instructor for both Basic and Advanced SWAT schools for the Washington State and served on the board of directors for the Washington State Tactical Officers Association (WSTOA), holding the positions of Director of Training, Vice President, and President.   He has twice been selected to the National Tactical Officers Associations (NTOA) Tactical Response and Operations Standards committee.  Prior to Law Enforcement Sgt. Taylor attended Washington State University where he played on the golf program as a scholarship athlete.  After graduation he played professional golf until he decided to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. 

Ben Millam

Ben Milam has been a full-time law enforcement officer since 2009 and has been an active member of the SWAT Team since 2013. 

He was promoted to Sergeant in 2018, and now serves as a Patrol Sergeant in a moderate sized agency in southcentral Montana. 

As a patrol officer, he was a primary FTO as well as Firearms Instructor. Upon receiving his promotion in 2018, he took over the Firearms program and began serving as the Lead Firearms SGT and Rangemaster.  During his time in patrol, Ben was awarded Officer of the Year (2014) and Supervisor of the Year (2021).

Currently, his primary assignments include Patrol SGT, Team Leader for the SWAT Team, and Lead Firearms Instructor.  In his over 10 years of experience on the SWAT team, Ben has held roles of Explosive Breacher, Sniper, Assistant TL, and TL. 

He holds instructor certificates in a number of specialties and has helped develop many training programs for his agency and region.

Ben served as a board member for MSTOA and is a current member of the MSPOA Instructor Cadre.

Moses Jaraysi

Moses Jaraysi has 40 years of experience in the fields of civil engineering, construction, environmental engineering, cleanup strategy development and negotiation, and executive management. Moses spent 10 years in construction management positions in multi-million-dollar major projects, such as the construction of Kuwait City Waterfront, Kuwait Telecommunication Tower, and Kuwait Disney Land project. In the last 30 years, Moses Led the development and execution of the cleanup of radioactive waste sites. He developed and negotiated Cleanup Strategies with the Federal Government, State, USEPA, and Tribal Nations. As an executive manager, he led the development of multi-discipline professional staff implementing advanced leadership approaches. 

Moses obtained his Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of West Minister, London, UK, in 1980, and his Masters Degree in Science in Management and Leadership from Western Governors University in 2019.  Moses is also a certified Emotional Intelligence coach.