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OFFICER MARIO G. SAINZ
Officer Mario G. Sainz is the Senior Patrol Officer at CSUSM Public Safety Services.  He joined the CSUSM Police Department in April of 1993, and has been teaching Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) classes at CSUSM and San Diego State University since 1994.  In 1998, he received the Governors Safety Award for teaching RAD at CSUSM.  He is also a member the CSU Southern California Critical Response Unit, which responds to situations involving crowd control, dignitary protection, and disaster relief. 

Officer Sainz enjoys being proactive on patrol and is a strong advocate of empowering the community through community oriented policing (COP) concepts.  Teaching RAD is “top notch” on his list of assignments.  His RAD students at CSUSM have ranged in age from five (5) to ninety-four (94) years of age!

  Officer Sainz has instructor certifications in the following areas:

• RAD Basic
• RAD Advanced
• RAD for Kids
• FBI, Defensive Tactics
• San Diego Regional (Impact Weapons)
• Federal Domestic Preparedness/Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) events

Extensive (free-style) training in various martial arts disciplines

To contact Officer Sainz call 760-750-4567 or email him here.