Dave Redemann

Dave has been a Seattle Police Officer for 34 years working undercover over 25 of those years. He is assigned to Criminal Intelligence, which specializes in Intelligence, Surveillance and Undercover Operations. He is on loan to the F.B.I. as a full time long term Undercover TFO specializing in infiltrations of Criminal Organizations.

Dave has been teaching Undercover Survival Training, Physical Surveillance, and Vice & Narcotics training for 20 years Internationally and Nationally to State, Local, and Federal Agencies. He has trained over 12,000 undercover personnel.

Dave has been certified as an expert witness in Undercover Operations and Investigations by the Federal Courts and has testified several times in that capacity.

Dave created, at the request of the US Military, a “hostage prevention and survival” training course to assist those military personnel when serving abroad.

Dave’s 25 years of undercover experience has ranged from working Vice, Narcotics, Organized Crime, White Supremacist, Militia Groups, Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations, Outlaw Motorcycle gangs and even assisted other F.B.I. undercover personnel on an International Terrorist Case. A large portion of Dave’s cases involved long term infiltrations of Criminal Organizations lasting sometimes up to 4 years. He just completed a 3-½ year infiltration. He has spent almost 10 years of his undercover career living with the criminals he is investigating. While working undercover he has purchased most levels of most narcotics, stolen vehicles, stolen property, guns, fully automatic guns, explosives, and hand grenades.

Dave has worked numerous long-term surveillance cases working on organized Mexican drug traffickers. A number of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) OCDETF (Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force) cases involved almost round the clock surveillance for months on end. Dave has thousands of hours of “live” mobile and stationary surveillance. Dave was asked by the FBI to take over their “Physical Surveillance” school for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center. Dave revamped and expanded the FBI school into what it is today. Another responsibility of Dave’s specialized unit is to follow the money of criminal organizations. Their unit has built an expertise in following the suspects to their money and assets. Thus allowing State and Federal Agencies to cripple the criminal organizations by removing their profits and assets.

Kori Redemann

Kori Redemann was born and raised in a small suburb just 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington.

At 26 she became a divorced single mom of her only son. For the next 25 years she became one of only a handful of women in the country to run what was to become one of the most successful meat distribution companies in the Pacific Northwest. 

In 2004 Kori, with her son by her side, married David Redemann and his two children.  It was also at this time that she became a full-time “UC’s” wife. It wasn’t until after two long-term FBI undercover cases and spending countless hours (years) raising two children predominantly alone that she agreed to offer her insight to others. Traveling around the country with David she now speaks to students and their spouses about the life of an “undercover wife and family.”

One of her primary missions with U.S. Humble Heroes is to interact with the spouses of veterans and female veterans.

Brandon James

Brandon James is an 18-year veteran Seattle Police sergeant currently assigned as a supervisor to the North Precinct Anti-Crime Team, a tactical, plain-clothes, and undercover narcotic, vice, and special emphasis team. 

Prior to his current assignment, Sergeant James was a detective and sergeant assigned to Criminal Intelligence and a detective in the Narcotics Unit with extensive investigative background of dismantling violent and criminal profiteering organizations and managing sensitive investigations and organized crime syndicates operating throughout Washington and the United States.  He was also assigned as a lead investigator to the FBI Seattle Safe Streets Task Force investigating violent and organized groups in the Puget Sound region.  He is a certified FBI undercover employee and has been involved in numerous sensitive operations connected to international and domestic terrorism and criminal investigations as an undercover operative and case manager.  He also served a lead investigator for criminal allegations against police officers.  He has experience conducting dignitary protection duties including working directly with the U.S. Secret Service on the POTUS protection detail as a liaison and intelligence officer.

Sergeant James has extensive experience investigating state and federal narcotic laws including managing several Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigations through the use of undercover operations, confidential informants, and advanced knowledge of electronic surveillance including the use of federal Title III wiretap techniques.  He is a federal court recognized narcotic crimes expert.  He also has investigative experience dismantling identity theft, fraud, money laundering, and other property crimes organized networks, which also includes the arrest of a defense attorney committing acts in support of the fraud organization.  

Sergeant James is currently a Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission Undercover School Instructor as well as an instructor for various physical surveillance and counter-surveillance courses.  Sergeant James has served as a lead Seattle PD tactical and defensive tactics instructor as well as routinely teaching new and veteran police officers and federal agents case law updates, basic investigation techniques, search warrant writing, and confidential informant management courses.

Sergeant James was awarded Detective of the Year in 2011 for his involvement as one of the investigators for the June 2011 threat of attack to the Seattle Military Entrance Processing Station by Islamic extremists.  In 2011 and 2013, he was awarded the Seattle PD Excellence Award for various investigations leading to successful and lengthy prison sentences for violent and criminal profiteering subjects.    

Sergeant James also serves as a reservist Special Agent/Criminal Investigator for the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service and is a 4-year active duty veteran of the U.S. Air Force.  He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management.  He also enjoys spending time with his wife, two children, doing outdoor activities and is a self-admitted CrossFit addict.  

Captain Mike Edwards

Retired Captain of the Seattle Police. Future chaplain. Pictured Center.