About us

Hanrahan Consulting provides the best public safety training and agency services in New England. Here are some of our key instructors/professionals:

Attorney Justin Hanrahan

Justin is a Massachusetts licensed attorney and a police manager with more than 25 years of experience. Justin has been teaching police officers and police supervisors for many years in the area of critical incident management, policy development, police supervision, criminal law and criminal procedure. Justin enjoys teaching police officers and is dedicated to improving law enforcement in the Commonwealth.

In addition to helping police officers prepare for promotional success, Hanrahan Consulting has become the premiere service for agencies looking for custom examinations to select the absolute best candidate. We have provided examination services to agencies in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and other states for many years.

As an attorney, Justin, focuses his efforts on training law enforcement officers in the area of management and supervision, policy development, criminal procedure and critical incident management.

Justin currently teaches Criminal Law & Procedure for numerous police departments and police academies and is the author of the Police Officer’s Law Manual: Massachusetts Police Officer’s Guide to Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Law and Motor Vehicle Law, which is the book used to teach new police officers in training at the best police academies in Massachusetts. The book is also used by hundreds of police officers and many police departments as their primary all-inclusive field reference.

KEY CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Demetrice Phillips

Demetrice Phillips holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in management and a Doctor of Business Administration in management. Demetrice has 16 years of experience in policing and works as a municipal police officer and previously as a university police officer. Additionally, Demetrice has five years of full-time faculty experience having been an assistant professor in business administration. Demetrice is a family man and enjoys spending time with his wife and four children. Demetrice seeks to serve and help others as his mentors have helped him

Terri Delaney, RN

Terri Delaney is an emergency room and psychiatric nurse who has over 32 years-experience working with people who have mental illness and developmental disabilities. She has been providing de-escalation training to nurses, doctors, police officers, and EMS personnel throughout her career.

Loren Fitzgibbons

Loren Fitzgibbons is a specialist in testing for entry level and promotional titles. Loren was employed in the state’s Civil Service Unit for many years, in both the Test Development and Test Administration teams. Loren participated in and/or supervised testing for mainly Public Safety positions, including all Police ranks, all Fire ranks, Environmental Police ranks, Parole Officer ranks, Correction Officer ranks, and others. In her role at Civil Service, Loren was a key factor in the Education & Experience (E&E) exam component, all online testing programs, and all oral/Assessment Center testing programs, including the internal development and administration of the Regional Assessment Center Initiative (RACI). Public Safety testing is a passion of Loren’s, especially Assessment Center exams and other alternate methods of testing. In her time at Civil Service, Loren reviewed and approved approximately 150 Assessment Center exams that were developed and administered by multiple external vendors. Since then, Loren has been successfully assisting candidates in their testing preparations through both group classes and individualized tutoring sessions for many years. Loren has earned her Master’s Degree from Emerson College, and her Bachelor’s Degree from Clark University.