Dynamic Behavioral Consulting’s President, Dr. Royce Jalazo, is one of only two psychologists in all of Broward County who have been cleared and approved to provide psychological services to the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO)’s 5,800 employees, including more than 2,800 certified deputies and more than 600 fire rescue professionals and their dependents. 

BSO provides full-time law enforcement services in 16 Broward cities and towns and in all of Broward’s unincorporated areas, serving more than one-third of the county. In addition, BSO protects the Broward County Courthouse, the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, areas of the Everglades and the county’s waterways, including Port Everglades.  Click here: to get a full listing of all the areas that BSO serves.

Broward Sheriff’s Office has a unique employee assistance program that seeks to support their employees and families by hand-picking a small number of psychologists (only 2) who undergo an extensive background investigation in order to meet the standards of the BSO EAP program.

NSU-BSO Practicum at Dynamic Behavioral Consulting

In partnership with Nova Southeastern University, Broward Sheriff’s Office serves as a training site for the BSO-NSU Practicum.  This practicum is a potential training site for aspiring police psychologists in that the work is focused on providing psychological support services to Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO)’s employees and their dependents.   Candidates will provide Individual, Couple, and Family therapy services, conduct psychological evaluations, and participate in critical incident stress debriefings as necessary.  This site provides the candidate with additional exposure to the unique issues and situations involved in BSO employees’ job duties.  It includes in-vivo training experiences as candidates ride-along with deputies, paramedics, and fire rescue, as they protect and serve Broward County’s citizens during regular patrols and calls.  Opportunities to participate in hostage negotiation training may be offered.  Candidates may also have the opportunity to lecture to undergraduate psychology students.

BSO Hostage Negotiations/SWAT Training

NSU doctoral students (including the BSO Practicum Student) are provided with the opportunity to attend joint hostage negotiation trainings with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and S.W.A.T. teams. Students often participate in role plays simulating a hostage negotiation scenario and act as hostages and hostage-takers.

For more about the educational partnership of BSO and Nova Southeastern University, please visit the BSO NSU Home Page on NSU’s Web site.

Broward Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement & Fire Rescue

In addition to this clearance process, Dr. Jalazo is provided with additional exposure to the unique issues and situations involved in BSO employees’ job duties by observing on-the-job experiences and finding out first-hand from employees the nature of their difficulties.  She has sat next to 911 call operators and “plugged in” while they handle live emergency calls from the community, observed communications operators as they dispatch calls to deputies, paramedics, and fire rescue, as well as ridden along with deputies as they protect and serve Broward County’s citizens during regular patrols.

Every year, hundreds of deputies experience intense, traumatic events that can have serious long-term consequences for them, their families, and their departments. Recognizing this, BSO EAP program seeks to ensure that their law enforcement employees have the tools at hand to cope with such critical incidents (e.g., shooting, death of citizen, fatal car accidents, etc.).  As such,   Dr. Jalazo is periodically on call to provide support during such incidents to provide on-the-scene psychological support and psychoeducation.

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