History

• The American Heartland Training Institute was founded by Roy Orth, Mark Jones and Gary Hacker. While in the Kansas City, Missouri, police department, Orth developed the department's records management system and created training and operations manuals. He founded the institute after his retirement from the police department in 2007.
  
  

Classes

• Law enforcement-related topics covered in classes at the American Heartland Training Institute include responses to motorcycle gangs, drug cartels, and undercover work. The institute's programs have been approved by the Missouri Department of Public Safety's peace officer standards and training program.
  
  

Instructors

• The American Heartland Training Institute's instructors, who include the founders as well as Marc Jacobs and Lynda Hacker, share more than 95 years of collective experience in law enforcement. The institute asserts that it is the real-world experience of its instructors that make the institute preferable to competitors.