Duwayne Poorboy

Sergeant Duwayne A. Poorboy has served the San Marcos, Texas, Police Department for over 18 years and is the supervisor of the Special Investigations Unit. Before this role, he supervised the crime reduction, field training, and K-9 units. He has worked as a patrol officer, field training officer, criminal investigations division detective, and narcotics task force detective. In 2015, Sergeant Poorboy received his Department’s Officer of the Year award and the Texas Narcotics Officers Association Central Region Detective of the Year for his work as a co-case agent in a multi-year FBI investigation into the Texas Mexican Mafia. Sergeant Poorboy was also a member of the Hays County SWAT Team’s Crisis Negotiation Unit for 15 years and was the team leader. He continues to assist in the annual Texas State University Hostage Negotiation Competition and Seminar hosted by Dr. Wayman Mullins. Sergeant Poorboy is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University.   His research interests include spatial-temporal crime patterns, problem-oriented policing, and hostage/crisis negotiation.  Sergeant Poorboy is currently working on projects with Dr. Lucia Summers from Texas State University’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.