Don Rabon
Deputy Director Western Campus
North Carolina Justice Academy, Ret.

Don retired as Deputy Director Western Campus, North Carolina Justice Academy, and was formerly manager of the Investigations Center of the North Carolina Justice Academy. Don has law enforcement experience in rural and municipal law enforcement agencies and instructional areas including Interviewing, Detecting Deception, Rapport Building, Interrogation, Persuasion, Audit-Related Interviewing, Investigations, and Investigative Discourse Analysis.

For over a period of 35 years, his interviewing instruction and investigative assistance has been provided to related professionals in 46 U.S States as well as Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Belgium, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Trinidad, Barbados, Singapore, Ireland, and England. In addition, he has provided training to Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Personnel, NATO Counterintelligence Personnel as well as private sector investigative and corporate security personnel. Participants in his trainings have included the Legal Division; North Carolina Department of Justice, the United States Secret Service, The North Carolina District Attorneys’ Association, The North Carolina District Court Judges’ Association, the Law Enforcement Communication Center, and the Behavioral Science Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Quantico, VA, the US Army C.I.D., The Central Intelligence Agency, The SEC, USDA, Banking Administrators, Auditors, and Investigators, IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Probation and Parole, Housing Authority Investigators, Insurance and Banking Fraud Investigators, Defendant Investigators, Assessment and Admissions Personnel, Substance Abuse Counselors, the Dallas Texas Investigative Division, Real Estate related professionals, the California Highway Patrol, the United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector and the Illinois State Police and American Airlines.

Don has his A.A.S. in Criminal Justice, from Davidson County Community College and a B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration, from East Tennessee State University. He has performed advanced studies at Eastern Kentucky University and has military experience with the US Army.

He is a published author of 4 texts: Interviewing and Interrogation 2nd edition; Investigative Discourse Analysis 2nd Edition; Persuasive Interviewing; Fraud Related Interviewing and is editor of the interviewing focused newsletter, Hamlet’s Mind.