Gary Lowe
G.W. Lowe & Associates, LLC
Gary W. Lowe retired from the University of Central Missouri in 2007, where he had been teaching Law Enforcement Training programs since 1981. Mr. Lowe has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and a Master’s Degree in Safety. Mr. Lowe has been an SFST Instructor since 1987, and was recertified at an approved NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor program in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1994.
Mr. Lowe was also certified as a Drug Abuse Recognition Expert in 1994, by the California Narcotic Officer’s Association in San Luis Obispo, California. Mr. Lowe has attended many of Missouri’s Drug Recognition Expert and DRE Instructor programs including the first ones conducted in Kansas City, MO, in 1993.
Throughout his career, Mr. Lowe’s focus has been in the area of Detecting Impaired Drivers. Mr. Lowe has conducted numerous training seminars, written curricula and workbooks for law enforcement concerning the issue of Impaired Driving. During his career, Mr. Lowe has certified more than three thousand (3500) Law Enforcement SFST Practitioners, in the proper administration and scoring of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, and has certified more than five hundred (500) SFST Practitioners as Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructors.
Mr. Lowe was responsible for the development and implementation of the initial SFST Practitioner and Instructor Recertification programs used in Missouri. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Lowe served as Chairman of the Missouri DWI Task Force Committee, and served as Missouri’s State SFST Coordinator. Mr. Lowe continues to actively train SFST Practitioners in Impairment Detection, Drugs That Impair Driving, Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Police Driving, as well as Police Driver Instructor training at the Metropolitan Community College-Blue River Public Safety Institute, in Independence, MO.
