WA DOL Private Investigator License #4180
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“We view Rampart Group as a vital business partner in helping us pro-actively identify risks, limit our liabilities, reduce costs, and safeguard our organi-zation’s productivity and profitability.”
~ Rampart Client
Rampart in the News:
Paul Leodler
Executive Vice President and Co-Owner, Rampart Group
PAUL LEODLER is the Executive Vice President and Co-Owner of Rampart Group LLC, and has over 40 years security and investigative experience. He served 16 years in public law enforcement, first as a Deputy Sheriff, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and later as a Police Officer and Sergeant with the Houston Police Department (HPD).
During his service in local law enforcement, Paul served in many roles including tours in the HPD Internal Affairs Division where he conducted police corruption investigations, and the Narcotics Division where he served on a joint drug task force with the FBI charged with investigating international drug trafficking and money laundering.
Paul’s private sector experience includes 9 years as Director of Global Secu-rity with a Fortune 50 medical products and services company where he was responsible for ensuring the security of all operations in the Western US, Latin America, Middle East and Southeast Asia, a region employing approximately 12,000 people in pharmaceutical and medical products distribution centers, medical device manufacturing plants, research and development facilities and nuclear pharmacies that manufacture and distribute radiological medicines. His role required development of policy and implementation of procedures covering security related issues. He served as a resource for operations man-agement and was engaged in crisis response, workplace violence intervention and business continuity planning. He inspected and audited facilities and supply chains, performed critical incident analysis, conducted workplace and criminal investigations and designed security systems for high risk operations.
Paul has extensive private sector security management experience in a variety of roles. He has developed and led executive security details in the US and abroad for celebrities, business executives and senior government officials and has organized security for events in excess of 10,000 attendees in venues to include Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Orlando and Washington DC. He is a widely recognized trainer and key note speaker on the topics of Kidnap Avoidance, Robbery Survival, Workplace Violence, Active Shooter Response and Workplace Investigations and has provided security training for high net worth families, corporations, trade associations and universities. He is a member of ASIS (American Society of Industrial Security), US Dept. of State Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), Chamber of Commerce, And Washington Association of Legal Investigators (WALI). He holds a BS in Criminal Justice from Louisiana State University.
Rampart Group is a Private Investigations Agency -License WA #1953
and a Private Security Guard Company -License WA #900