Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Department of Parks and Recreation Management

Phone: 580.774.3291

Fax: 580.774.7059

prm@swosu.edu

Vince Sidders

Vince SiddersVince Sidders teaches Tactical Tracking and assists with the Park Ranger Seminar for the SWOSU Park Law Enforcement Program.  He is currently a Federal Law Enforcement Officer with the US Forest Service in the Black Hills National Forest where he serves as the agency training coordinator for South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming. 

Vince received a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1996 and has completed numerous criminal justice courses at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

Vince was an Oklahoma State Park Ranger for seven years, from 1997 to 2004.  During that time, he held the ranks of Patrol Ranger, Sergeant, and Lieutenant and worked at several different state parks.  While serving as a State Park Ranger, Vince was a CLEET certified instructor and member of a state-wide special operations team.

In 2004, Vince was hired as a National Park Ranger and graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.  His first duty station was Coronado National Memorial in Arizona.  There, he conducted counter-narcotics and immigration enforcement operations in conjunction with DEA, ICE, and the US Border Patrol.  Vince was also selected to serve on the National Park Service’s Special Events & Tactics Team for the Inter-Mountain Region.  Vince later transferred to Buffalo National River in Northwest Arkansas where he was a Federal Firearms Instructor and a Field Training Officer.

Vince’s tactical training includes the DEA / OBN Air Assault Course, Tulsa Police Department’s SWAT School and the Police Sniper Course.  He has completed the DEA Clandestine Meth Lab Investigator’s Course and the Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force Interdiction Training.  Vince graduated from the National Park Service’s Special Operations Course, the USANG Urban Warfare School, and completed survival & tactical training with the US Army’s 1st Special Forces Group.

Vince’s tracking background the US Border Patrol Tactical Tracking Course, David Scott-Donelan’s Tactical Tracking Operations School, and the US Army Combat Tracking Course.  Vince spent almost two years conducting active tracking operations on the Mexican border and has apprehended numerous drug smugglers and undocumented aliens.  He has also conducted forensic tracking operations for evidence collection in several criminal cases.  He has been a tactical tracking and small unit tactics instructor for over five years and has taught state and federal officers as well as military personnel.

Vince has received a Commendation for Valor, the Director’s Award from the Department of Homeland Security, Honor Graduate of the National Park Ranger Integrated Training Program, and was selected as the “Most Wanted” partner in a gunfight by his peers in the Federal Firearms Instructor Program.