Mr. Woodward has 25 years of law enforcement experience serving in a variety of positions with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Arizona High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. The unique nature of the Arizona DPS role in law enforcement throughout the state gave him valuable experience in working closely with agencies of all sizes and jurisdictions, including large and small municipalities, remote and urban counties, tribal agencies, and a variety of federal agencies. Mr. Woodward has patrol experience in both remote and urban areas at ranks ranging from officer to commander. His investigative experience includes liquor violations, fraud, narcotics, organized crime, intelligence, terrorism, internal investigations, and public corruption. His incident command experience includes officer-involved shootings, large-scale incidents on the Phoenix metropolitan freeway, demonstrations at the state capitol, and presidential escorts. While assigned to the Inspections Unit, he conducted detailed comprehensive audits of agencies throughout the state. He was also the project manager for the first state-level/statewide photo enforcement program in the nation. Other areas of his experience include human resources, media relations, and legislative testimony. After retiring from Arizona DPS as Commander of Highway Patrol operations on the Phoenix metropolitan freeway system in 2010, he accepted a position as Training Director for the Arizona High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. As a training director, he ran a dynamic training program, with classes attended by both sworn and civilian law enforcement personnel from throughout the country. These classes were recognized by the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, Northern Arizona University, and Wayland Baptist University. Mr. Woodward has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy and the Police Traffic Management course at the Institute of Police Management and Training.
“I really want to express my appreciation for this work that’s been done in a collaborative way in which the study was put together. . . . I’ve seen a number of studies start in the fire department and this is the first one I can remember that has actually been fully completed and brought to the council, and it was done in a very thorough fashion. This is the best assemblage of comprehensive information about the fire department today, as well as what our needs might be in the future, that I have seen. So thanks to everyone. Thank you, Stewart, for giving us our money’s worth on our consultant contract with you.”
City Manager City of San Luis Obispo
“I am really, really impressed. I am impressed at the exhaustiveness of your study, impressed at the honesty and candor with which you expressed your findings; I am very impressed at the constructive tone of it, and that you came in under budget as well. So, thank you very much. I think that this document is going to be a cornerstone for us really moving forward for the next five, ten, twenty [years], half a century.”
Salt Lake City Council Meeting
“I wanted to offer my compliments to Citygate, to Mr. Gary for this very comprehensive report.”
San Luis Obispo Council Member
“I really, really enjoyed reading your Word product. I appreciate the fact that it was direct, it was constructive, and . . . it wasn’t finger-pointing, it was just . . . the facts. And I think that the money was well spent.”
Salt Lake City Council Meeting
“Thank you very much for a comprehensive report. Thank you.”
Palm Springs
“I was absolutely thrilled with the report because it was very comprehensive, very detailed. I call it the ‘time-in-motion study’ almost and some of the aspects [are] ‘how does your paper flow? How can you make your processes better? . . . As a government agency, how can we provide better service to the constituents?’ And to us we think that this study identifies those things down to all of the small paper processes and flows.”
Retired City Manager City of Vista, CA
“Thank you so much for this training. This was the best PIO training I’ve ever received.”
S-403 Information Officer class participant
“Thank you so much for all you have done. And it’s so comprehensive, I know it’s going to take a while for us to digest it all, but I think you’ve come up with some really good recommendations.”
Pro Tempore City of Vista, CA
“I think Citygate has done a great job. It seems like you’ve been most thorough and even-handed in your evaluations and you’ve given us certainly a lot of suggestions and guidelines to work with.”
City of Vista, CA
“I think this is one of the most comprehensive reports and I think probably one of the best presented reports I’ve seen in my years in government service. I want to start off by commending you for that and acknowledge that the work that you were able to do with cooperation from all of the different firefighting agencies in this region was second-to-none.”
Supervisor First District San Diego County