Kevin Haight
Capt. Kevin Haight(retired)
Senior Account Manager
Motorola Solutions
Captain Kevin Haight (retired) possesses over 23 years of service with the Idaho State Police. He has a passion for the emergency dispatching profession and is a critic of apathy toward emergency dispatch professionalization and standardization initiatives among public-safety and policy leaders, arguing for an intervention of the status quo.
His experience included patrol, recruiting, executive protection, field training, honor guard, reconstruction, criminal interdiction, and Commander of the agency’s Statewide Communications Centers & Systems.
Kevin served on the Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission, chaired its PSAP Standards & Training Committee, and served on the Idaho Chapter of APCO/NENA board, the APCO/NENA National Joint TERT Initiative (NJTI) Committee, the APCO ProCHRT Committee, and serves on the Denise Amber Lee Foundation board. He is also an Idaho POST-Certified General Subjects instructor, teaching Ethical Decision-Making since 2013. Kevin holds a B.A. degree in Business from Ohio Christian University, completed Northwestern University Center for Public Safety’s School of Police Staff and Command, and holds an M.A. degree in Security Studies from Naval Postgraduate School. His thesis, published by Naval Postgraduate School, is titled 9-1-1, What’s Our Emergency? Diagnosing a Struggling Occupation Serving a Neglected System.
Kevin is now a Senior Account Manager for Motorola Solutions, covering public-safety sales initiatives in Montana and Eastern Oregon. He and his lovely wife, Anita, reside in Meridian, Idaho.