Captain Dan Willis Joins Kate Loving to Discuss First Responder Wellness

Captain Dan Willis has served with the La Mesa Police Department for the past 25 years, in part as a homicide and cold case detective, a SWAT Commander, and as the agency's Wellness Program Coordinator. He is a graduate of San Diego State University with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Criminal Justice, as well as a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, where he studied emotional survival issues for first responders. 

He has taught for 10 years at the San Diego Police Academy, and has been Officer of the Year twice with nominations for Detective of the Year for the State of California. Captain Willis provides emotional survival training to any first responder agency in the country. He is the author of Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responder's Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart.