Donald Mac Neil

Donald Mac Neil is a retired Glendale police department command officer and lifetime member of the California Narcotic Officer’s Association (CNOA). Over the course of a 25-year active career in law enforcement, Don worked as a patrol officer, detective, sergeant, lieutenant and regional drug taskforce commander. A great deal of his police career was spent working in drug enforcement assignments. As an undercover officer, he worked to dismantle organized methamphetamine dealing networks as well as the investigation of trans-global Colombian cocaine drug trafficking groups that had inundated Southern California in the 80’s and 90’s. Thrice nominated as California Narcotic Officer of the Year, Mr. Mac Neil led the development of a substance abuse and addiction-training curriculum (DAR) that is now the educational standard for public safety officers throughout America. A medal of valor winner and graduate of the POST California Law Enforcement Command College, Mr. Mac Neil went on to work as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) inspector general who led civil & criminal investigations into waste, fraud and abuse associated with the construction of the vast Red Line Subway System. Mr. Mac Neil went on to craft the Los Angeles Downtown Business Improvement (DCBID) program for dealing with addicts, mentally ill and homeless; that program is now a model for inner-city renovation programs nationwide. At present, Mr. Mac Neil is the director of criminalistics and addiction medicine for MEDTOX Laboratories, Inc. A graduate of Occidental College and Cal Poly Pomona, he possesses undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology and criminalistics. Mr. Mac Neil has taught as adjunct faculty since 1996 at Cal State L.A., Cal State Long Beach and Tiffin University (OH). Mr. Mac Neil resides in Santa Clarita (CA) and is married to wife Vicki Mac Neil; he is the father of three adult age children. A college football and ice hockey player, in his spare time works Mac Neil works as a high school varsity offensive line football coach at Canyon Country’s Canyon High School. (California’s Div. III 2006 state champion football team). Son Colin Mac Neil was himself an All-American football player at Canyon H.S. & Occidental College and is now in his 4th year of medical school; daughter Kelly is a nurse. Son Sean Mac Neil was a lauded college football player and graduate of Whittier College and is now pursuing a career as a physician’s assistant. Mr. Mac Neil writes for and publishes a nationally circulated substance abuse newsletter; he is a frequent court expert on matters of addiction, drug influence and criminal intent.