Rialto Police Department

Security Solutions International (SSI) is one of the private sector security firms that organize and sponsor these joint trainings. Security Solutions International Inc. provides training, media, conference, and consulting services to Homeland Security officials around the world. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Miami, Florida. SSI publishes the Counter Terrorist magazine, distributed in the US, Europe and Asia for “Homeland Security warriors,” claiming a subscriber base of 15,000, with further exposure to 65,000 homeland security professionals. SSI runs private programs that send private citizens and public officials to Israel, including the Warrior Israel Program and the Advanced Israel Training, where it partners with Saint Leo University’s Homeland Security and Criminal Justice programs. SSI has sent hundreds of public local, state and federal law enforcement and homeland security officials to train in Israel. Since its establishment, SSI has provided products and services to more than 1000 agencies worldwide.

The Police Department of Rialto, California, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Tony Farrar served as Chief of Rialto Police Department between 2012 and 2015. Farrar attended a training in Israel with Security Solutions International as a delegate of their Homeland Security Training Mission in 2009.

In 2013, Farrar was appointed as an Executive Fellow at the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., an organization that aims to “improve policing through innovation and science.” His study of the effect of police body cameras on use of force, the first experimental evaluation of police body cameras,earned him the 2013 Award for Excellence in Evidence-Based Policing at the Conference on Evidence-Based Policing at the University of Cambridge and the 2014 IACP/Motorola Solutions Webber Seavey Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference. Later in 2013, he was appointed as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Cambridge Executive Program. Farrar was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University in 2015.

Farrar continues to teach leadership courses throughout the state and has been recognized for his leadership training by the Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) and other state and national organizations. He is a member of American Society of Criminology, the Society of Evidence-Based Policing, the California Police Chief’s Association, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Farrar retired in 2015 and now teaches criminal justice courses at Mt. San Jacinto College in their Administration of Justice program, and at their San Gorgonio Pass Service Campus.