About Fernando Moreira
Fernando Moreira has tracked since boyhood, trained by his father and grandfather — both professional trackers. This three-generation lineage forms the foundation of everything Worldwide Trackers teaches.
Military Service
Fernando served as a tracker in the Portuguese military during the colonial wars in Africa, beginning in 1974. Over nearly six years of service, he conducted covert and overt track prosecutions lasting up to 14 days against insurgent forces.
Law Enforcement
After emigrating to the United States, Fernando brought his tracking expertise to law enforcement and search & rescue. He currently assists the Washoe County Sheriff's Office in Northern Nevada as a tracker for back-country tactical operations, felon apprehension, counter-drug operations, and crime scene investigation.
He has successfully prosecuted thousands of tracks and investigations including murders of law enforcement personnel and child abductions.
Fernando is a qualified expert witness in the area of man-tracking for both the California and Nevada court systems.
Training
Fernando has trained law enforcement, military, and search & rescue personnel full-time since 1995 — over 30 years of continuous instruction. Agencies trained include:
- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (San Dimas and Altadena Stations Mountain Rescue Teams, Lomita Station Search and Rescue)
- U.S. Border Patrol
- California Department of Justice
- Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco
- Centinela State Prison
- Imperial County Sheriff's Department
- Modesto Police Department — created their back-country tactical tracking team
- Washington State military
- California military
Fernando has also conducted training internationally in Finland, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, and Italy.
Search & Rescue
Fernando is the founder of 8 Search and Rescue teams and has served as a SWAT scout. SAR is the mission that drives everything — the origin story of Worldwide Trackers. Every law enforcement course is built on a foundation of thousands of real-world SAR deployments.
Publications
- Visual Mantracking for Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue (Amazon)
- Shadow Disciple (Amazon)
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Contact: professionaltrackers@gmail.com
Phone: 775-338-0882