David Taylor:  

Workplace DAVID D. TAYLOR, JD is a former law enforcement officer having over 26 years of sworn law enforcement and related work experience. He last served as a deputy sheriff with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, which is situated in Ocala, Florida. He last held the rank of Legal Investigator and was assigned to the Sheriff's Legal Services Bureau. While a Legal Investigator, he was assigned to the Homicide Division in the Ocala office of the Office of the State Attorney - Fifth Judicial Circuit. Currently, he is the Executive Director of DKL Professional Development, Inc. - a Florida corporation. David now provides advanced and specialized law enforcement training for law enforcement agencies throughout the United States as well as consultation services to prosecuting attorneys and criminal defense attorneys in the areas of death and homicide investigations, and child injury and death investigations. From July 1990, to December 1996, Investigator Taylor was one of seven detectives assigned to the Major Crimes Unit of the Sheriff’s Detective Bureau where he was responsible for conducting criminal investigations of violent crimes. Types of cases he has investigated include, but are not limited to homicides, armed robberies, sexual assaults and sexual batteries, home-invasions, car-jackings, aircraft crashes, train vs. pedestrian fatalities, kidnappings, suicides, child abuse & neglect, child maltreatment, and child/infant deaths, as well as officer-involved incidents involving deaths. Also, he has participated in over one hundred post mortem examinations. Prior to being assigned to the Major Crimes Unit, he was assigned to the Property Crimes Unit where he was responsible for conducting investigations of criminal offenses involving crimes such as burglary, thefts, dealing in stolen property, auto thefts as we...Expand for more