Malcolm McGuire is a 23-year law enforcement veteran and currently serves as Captain with the Southern Methodist University Police Department in Dallas, TX.
He oversees the day-to-day operations of the department and is responsible for ensuring emergency response readiness, maintaining policy, legal, and regulatory compliance, supervising leadership performance, and advancing departmental strategic planning, training, and community engagement initiatives. He has played a key role in developing and strengthening multidisciplinary threat management and behavioral intervention processes in higher education law enforcement.
Captain McGuire has conducted training nationally and internationally on conflict resolution, diversity, effective communication, and threat assessment, and has played a pivotal role in training faculty, staff, and students to recognize warning signs of concerning behavior and understand the processes for reporting potential threats. This proactive educational initiative has empowered his campus community, creating a culture of vigilance and support.
He is actively engaged in the professional threat assessment and higher education safety community both locally and abroad, with his affiliations including the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), African Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (AfATAP) (where serves as a board member), Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP), as well as the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)’s Human Threat Management Committee. Additionally, he currently serves as the 2nd Vice President of the Texas Association of Campus and University Police Administrators (TACUPA).
Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Wiley University, a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management from Southern Methodist University, and is a current Doctoral student at Southern Methodist University. Malcolm has been married to his college sweetheart, Tysha, for 22 years, and they have two sons Miles and Mason, both current students at Prairie View A&M University.
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