- Colonel Joe Bradshaw is a current committee member of the National Sheriff’s Association’s Legal Affairs’ Committee. The National Sheriffs' Association is a professional association dedicated to serving the Office of Sheriff and its affiliates through education, training, and information resources. NSA represents thousands of sheriffs, deputies and other law enforcement, public safety professionals, and concerned citizens nationwide.
- Colonel Joe Bradshaw is a current member of the International Association Chiefs of Police, Legal Officers’ Section. The Legal Officers’ Section is a network of attorneys specializing in police-related advice and litigation from municipalities, sheriffs’ offices, prosecutors and private practice. They concentrate in police legal issues concerning criminal, employment, legislative and civil liability matters.
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November 13, 2009 - Colonel Joe Bradshaw achieves Life
Membership in the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The International Association of Chiefs of Police is
the world's oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization of police
executives, with over 20,000 members in over 100 different countries. IACP's
leadership consists of the operating chief executives of international,
federal, state and local agencies of all sizes.
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March 1, 2005 –
Colonel Joe Bradshaw is admitted to the United States Supreme Court. To be eligible for admission to the Bar of
this Court, an applicant is required to have been admitted to practice in the
highest court of a State for a period of at least three (3) years before the
date of the application; must not have been the subject of any adverse
disciplinary action pronounced or in effect during that three (3) year period;
and must be of good moral and professional character. The applicant must also be endorsed by two (2)
sponsors, both of whom are current members of the United States Supreme Court,
who know the applicant personally but are not related to him/her.
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Colonel Joe
Bradshaw is a current member of the Florida Association of Police Attorneys
(FAPA). From 1994 through 1997 Colonel
Bradshaw served as President of FAPA. The Florida Association of Police
Attorneys is comprised of lawyers in good standing with The Florida Bar who are
legal advisors to law enforcement agencies in the State of Florida. Legal Advisors are defined as those members
of The Florida Bar who advise law enforcement agencies on legal matters who do
not engage in the practice of criminal law as it pertains to criminal defense
or in the practice of civil law as it pertains to initiation or pursuit of
actions against law enforcement agencies or law enforcement officers in
connection with the performance of official duties.
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In 1989 Colonel Joe
Bradshaw attended the “National Law Institute” at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
The National Law Institute was established by the FBI as an intense law
program designed for full-time police legal advisors, who were selected to
attend from throughout the United States.
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In 1989, when
Colonel Joe Bradshaw was a road patrol deputy sheriff with the Palm Beach
County Sheriff’s Office, he received the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office
Meritorious Service Award. The
Meritorious Service Award is awarded for extraordinary conduct directly related
to the performance of criminal justice duties involving a degree of personal
risk to life and limb. Colonel Bradshaw
received this award in recognition for saving the life of a woman trapped in
her home, which was engulfed in flames.
Without regard to his own personal safety, Colonel Bradshaw entered the
house, found the woman trapped in the corner of her living room and carried her
to safety.
