Victor Fazio is a 27-year veteran of Southern California law enforcement, where he is a Captain with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. In this role, he currently serves as the Chief of Police for the city of Moorpark having oversight of all public safety operations in the city, as well as the surrounding unincorporated areas, for approximately 50,000 people. Moorpark is one of five cities in Ventura County that contracts with the Sheriff for police services.
Prior to this assignment, Victor primarily worked in, and has experience leading investigative units, having spent over 16 years specifically assigned to narcotics enforcement. Victor has also worked assignments in both custody and patrol settings. Considered an expert throughout the country in pharmaceutical drug diversion and heroin trafficking organizations, he has successfully developed and enacted strategies to combat the dramatic rise of fatal overdoses from opioids in communities throughout our nation. Victor was the architect and task force commander of the Ventura County Interagency Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit, which investigates any crime involving a pharmaceutical drug or heroin that results in death. He also led the major narcotics violator team for the Ventura County Narcotics Task Force, known as VCAT.
Victor has presented to thousands of law enforcement officers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, firefighters, paramedics, and community members throughout the nation on a broad variety of topics ranging from criminal law to officer mindset. He has also instructed at the university level in the field of criminal justice. Victor has a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in Political Science, a master’s degree from Arizona State University in Criminal Justice, and a doctorate in Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California, where his research was focused on educating physicians to reduce opioid harm.
