Major Wilfred Daniel (Dan) Libby is a 30+ year veteran of law enforcement. He is currently the Bureau of Law Enforcement Commander for the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. Prior to that, he was the Bureau of Administration Commander, a position he assumed after serving seven years as the Chief of Police for the City of Punta Gorda.

Prior to his Florida law enforcement experience he was the Chief of Police in Plymouth, New Hampshire (9 years) and a road patrol police officer/sergeant in Bedford, Massachusetts (11 years). He has been certified in three states as a police officer. As the Chief in Plymouth, Major Libby was responsible for managing a regional dispatch center that served seven police agencies in central NH and managed a regional prosecutors office.

Major Libby holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Massachusetts in American History and a Juris Doctor Degree in Law from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal District Court of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Command Officer Training Program at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and the 202nd session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Major Libby has been an instructor for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council, Northeast Regional Police Institute and the New Hampshire Criminal Justice Training Council. He is an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Edison Community College in Punta Gorda, Florida and was an adjunct at the New Hampshire Technical Institute of Concord, New Hampshire. He was an adjunct instructor in the paralegal program at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Dan is married to Michelle (an emergency room nurse) and has two daughters, Rachel and Kim. He resides in Punta Gorda, Florida.