W. Jon McCormick

W. Jon McCormick holds a 6th degree Black Belt in Combat Martial Arts. He is the director of the Cariboo Institute of Defense Tactics, a member of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers and works with members of various law enforcement agencies in the areas of suspect control and officer safety.

He wrote for law enforcement magazines BlueLine and Twenty-Four-Seven. He currently writes the Rural Crime Watch column published by Black Press Newspapers.

    Mr. McCormick was the personal security columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia Province newspaper. He wrote Cariboo Safety for the Cariboo Press and was their columnist. He has conducted workshops throughout Canada and the United States. McCormick instructs rape survivors at various women's centers, teaches prevention courses for seniors' groups, elementary/secondary school students, realtors, teachers/support staff, and was invited to conduct a safety seminar for 200 members of the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board. Contemporary radio was his medium for personal safety, listener call-in programs.

    He wrote the Educator and Outdoors for Sterling Newspapers, wrote for Beef in B.C., contributed to Backpacker and wrote personal security articles for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, B.C. Woman and Maturity. He has written women's self-defense pieces for Full Contact and Black Belt. He has been consulted by Telemedia Communication Inc.-Canadian Living and the Leeza Gibbons talk show on NBC. McCormick was recently featured in Maxim Magazine for self defence techniques. He has written Kids First, a complete child safety guide for parents.

    McCormick works with Dave Eyer of Eyer Training Services teaching bear attack survival techniques using a knife-when avoidance, bear spray and firearms have failed. Eyer's Bear Safety course is taught to forestry/mining employees and other resource users. McCormick collaborated with Eric Wilson- www.ericwilson.com-in Wilson's latest teen thriller, The Emily Carr Mystery. Wilson's protagonist Liz Austen is attacked in a cemetery and McCormick wrote the scene in which Austen successfully defends herself using his skills.

    McCormick is a member of community policing, president of the South Cariboo Rural Crime Watch Association, and a facilitator for Alternative Justice. He is a member of the College of Teachers, has a masters degree in education and twenty years teaching children, adults and seniors.

McCormick has written about the Colorado Lynx Relocation Project (Update) for B.C. Outdoor magazine, the fur fashion industry for British Columbia tourism and the Changing Faces of Trappers for the Cariboo-Chilcotin Communities Coalition.