Kurt Barbour

Detective Kurt Barbour is a 12-year veteran with the DuPage County (Illinois) Sheriff’s Office and a former police officer with the Baltimore County (MD) Police Department. He has been a Detective with DuPage County since 2011 and has served in a variety of assignments, including the jail, patrol, investigations, gangs, and narcotics. For the last several years, Kurt has worked as an undercover drug officer until his current assignment as a Detective in the Special Response and Gang Suppression Unit (SR-22).

In 2011, Kurt was assigned as a Detective working in an undercover capacity with the Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), a multi-jurisdictional task force. TNT is responsible for large scale narcotics investigations, undercover operations, vice crimes and organized crime. He served with TNT for over three years before being re-assigned to SR-22. Kurt has worked drug investigations with DEA, FBI, ATF, DHS/HIS, and the US Postal Inspections Service.

He has been a member of the following organizations: Midwest Gang Investigators Association (MGIA), Illinois Drug Enforcement Officers Association (IDEOA), Illinois Crisis Negotiation Association (ICNA), International Association of Undercover Officers (IAUC), and National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA). Kurt is a master instructor for the Homefront Protective Group (Brooklyn, New York) and a contract instructor for the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center and the Northeast Counterdrug Training Center.