Wayne K. Jeffer
Jeffery is an international expert in the drug recognition field. He holds a Master of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Alberta, and has 40 years of experience in progressively senior roles. He has served as a member of both the Alcohol and Toxicology sections of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Forensic Laboratories, and later as section head of the Toxicology Services for the RCMP Forensic Laboratory in Vancouver until 2003.
He served as a technical drug advisor to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Drug Abuse Committee, a member of the Addictive Drug Information Council of BC (ADIC), and adjunct professor in Criminal Justice at the Drexel University online program in 2010 in Philadelphia. Jeffery has specialized training in drug recognition, and has instructed at police drug training courses from 1978 to 2004. He continues to instruct on the RCMP Drug Expert Training as well as the Chemical Precursor Course of the Organization of American States. His courses encompass training in drug identification, drug effects, how illicit/licit drugs are used, how they are manufactured, and how to identify the drug user.
As coordinator of the Drug Recognition Expert Program from 1995 to 2003, Jeffery trained police officers in how to identify subjects under the influence of drugs, using subjects who were actually under the influence. He also was involved in analyzing drugs seized during criminal investigations as well as in the investigation and seizure of clandestine laboratories. Since 1990, he has advised numerous police departments across Canada on Clandestine Laboratory Investigations.
His international drug experience includes instructing police officers from South East Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States. He has also investigated poppy, cocaine and marijuana cultivation as well as heroin and cocaine manufacture in various countries. He has instructed for the Organization of American States on the Control of Precursors and Essential Chemical Course in South and Central America and the Caribbean. In 2005, Jeffrey was employed as a consultant to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Special Project, Guidelines for the safe handling and disposal of chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of drugs.
Jeffery is qualified to give expert testimony regarding Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking cases in cocaine, heroin, opium, marijuana, chemical drugs (methamphetamine, MDMA/MDA, mushrooms, GHB and Katamine), khat, anabolic steroids and prescription drugs in Provincial and Supreme Court in the Province of British Columbia, Provincial and Court of Queen&rsquos;s Bench in the Province of Alberta, and Provincial Court in the Yukon Territories.