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Joel Trask
LEDA Instructor | LEDA Steering Team Member |LEDA Tennessee State Chapter President
Joel Trask has been an active law enforcement officer since 2010. Prior to his law enforcement career, he worked in the Information Technology field as a technical support/network support specialist for approximately 10 years, the final 3 years of which he was employed by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
In 2010, he began a 12-year career with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he worked patrol and a variety of other assignments. In 2015, he was assigned to a specialized Gang Enforcement unit where he became a court-certified gang expert. His duties included planning and participating in numerous search warrants, parole and probation checks, and other various operations to locate guns, narcotics, and other illicit activities. He then went on to become a Field Training Officer, and in 2021, he was promoted to Sergeant.
In 2022, after realizing his family's need for a better quality of life and a more wholesome environment for raising his three boys, he moved his family to Middle Tennessee where he joined the Murfreesboro Police Department. Shortly after this, Joel became one of the founding members of the newly formed MPD Unmanned Aircraft Systems Team and currently serves as the Assistant Team Leader.
Joel currently serves the LEDA organization as a Steering Committee member, LEDA Instructor, and as the LEDA Tennessee State Chapter President. The goal of the chapter is to be a resource for Tennessee Public Safety agencies and to assist in promoting and training departments throughout the state of Tennessee in the standards set by the LEDA National organization.
Sergeant Tyler Morton
LEDA Tennessee State Chapter Vice President
Tyler Morten was born and raised in Hartington, Nebraska on the Morten family farm. He and his wife Jamie both served in the United States Air Force and currently reside in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They have been married 30 years and have two grown children.
Tyler is a Patrol Sergeant with the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office where he has served for the last 22 years. He has been flying drones for 7 years recreationally and has been a member of the RCSO Drone Team since 2021. He currently serves as the supervisor of the RCSO Patrol Drone Team which includes six certified pilots.
Tyler has been a member of LEDA since 2022 and is a LEDA Flight Skills proctor.
He currently serves as the Vice President of the LEDA Tennessee State Chapter.
Russell Bradshaw
Founder and Director of StormPoint Emergency Response
Russell Bradshaw has been active in public safety for nearly 20 years. His years of service include volunteer fire rescue, US Department of Homeland Security, reserve deputy sheriff, and search and rescue.
In 2017 he began a project to merge his backgrounds in IT and public service by founding a special response team that would respond to large scale weather incidents and disasters where local resources were overwhelmed and specialized assets were in desperate need.
Russell currently serves as the Founder and Director of StormPoint Emergency Response, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization specializing in search and rescue and incident support with unmanned aircraft systems and other technology resources. Through StormPoint’s mission Russell has been able to respond to hundreds of critical incidents with UAS and uses that experience to facilitate training and outreach to public safety agencies all over the country and beyond.
He also serves as a UAS Specialist with Rutherford County Fire Rescue, is a Fire Investigator, and is a founding board member of the Tennessee State Chapter of the Law Enforcement Drone Association.
Lieutenant Mike Herrick
Traffic Enforcement Division & Drone Program Leader
Lieutenant Mike Herrick’s commitment to public service spans over two decades. A graduate of Victor Valley High School in California, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard, where he served from 1998 to 2005. Following his military service, Lieutenant Herrick transitioned to law enforcement, being appointed as a police officer on June 25, 2006. He is a graduate of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Bethel University, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2012.
Currently serving as the Lieutenant in the Traffic Enforcement Division, Lieutenant Herrick has a strong background in public safety and leadership. He also plays a vital role in specialized areas such as crisis negotiation and methamphetamine lab response, where he serves as the Commander of the Crisis Negotiation Team and coordinates the Methamphetamine Lab Response Team.
Lieutenant Herrick began his work with drone technology in 2020, founding the department's drone program. His experience with drones grew in 2024 when he helped establish the Putnam County Rescue Squad’s drone program. He has led several successful drone deployments, including a notable 7-day deployment to East Tennessee after Hurricane Helene, where he served as the team lead.
With his diverse skill set and forward-thinking approach to technology and public safety, Lieutenant Herrick continues to be a critical asset to his department, the community, and the advancement of drone technology in law enforcement and rescue operations.
Lieutenant Herrick is a founding board member and Treasurer of the Tennessee State Chapter of the Law Enforcement Drone Association.