Peter Davidov has served in law enforcement since 1992 when he began his career as a reserve police officer for the Metropolitan Police in Washington, DC. He has served as a United States Capitol Police Officer, Scottsdale, AZ Police Officer and as a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He has spent the majority of his career with the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) in Maryland.

          Peter has extensive experience as a firearms and general instructor. He has taught entry level and advanced police training in use of force and firearms. He has specialized in the highly demanding area of police response to civil disorder, an environment in which police use of force is highly scrutinized. He has trained for civil disturbance since he began his law enforcement career.

          Peter was one of the founding members and lead trainers of Montgomery County’s Special Event Response Team (SERT) which is responsible for handling civil disturbance.  He has responded to many major events including IMF protests in Washington, DC, the 2009 G20 protest in Pittsburgh, PA, Presidential Inaugurations in 1992, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 as well as the 2015 Baltimore Civil Unrest. He was one of the leaders for Montgomery County’s SERT response to the Baltimore unrest. Peter was the part of the command team for MCPDs emergency response to the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. He is one of the founding members of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) CDU subcommittee and served as chairman of the committee from 2015-2017 and again from 2021-2023. He is currently a member of the National Institute of Justice’s Special Technical Committee for CDU personal protective equipment. As a member of the STC Peter traveled to the United Kingdom and Germany to meet with public order and crowd control experts and practitioners in November of 2017. He presented at the National Public Order Workshop in Ottawa, Canada in November of 2019 at the invitation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He has served as an instructor and consultant for the DHS Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, AL. Peter was a member of the National Tactical Officers Association Public Order Working group that created their Public Order standards which were released in 2023. He has worked as an expert witness in the area of police response to public order events in federal civil litigation. He served as a subject matter expert for a yearlong independent review of the City of Portland’s response to civil unrest in 2020. Peter is a contributing author to Public Order Policing, A Professional’s Guide to International Theories, Case Studies and Best Practices, published in 2024.

          Peter holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign service and a Master of Arts in National Security Studies both from Georgetown University. He is a graduate of the 279th Session of the FBI National Academy.

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