Having started life as an apprentice engineer, I moved into Policing in my mid-twenties. I served with West Midlands Police and the National Crime Squad and became a specialist in pro-active paedophile investigation. During this time I gained the first intercept authority for a paedophile operation, the first 'on-line' property interference authority and went on to develop the Covert Intelligence Investigators Course at Wyboston Police College. I finished my service with the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit as Head of Intelligence and Prison Intelligence. Following retirement, I worked for the Ministry of Justice until I was offered a position in the Law Department of the School of Law, Policing and Forensics at University of Staffordshire in May 2016. I now lecture in the Law and Criminology Sections of the Health, Education, Policing and Sciences and I am currently course leader for the BSc (Hons) Criminology 3 and 4 year, with pathways.
Academic qualifications
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2000 LL.B (Hons) Bachelor of Laws (Birmingham)
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2011 LL.M Master of Laws (Staffordshire)
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2015 Certificate in research
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PhD – Doctor in Philosophy – Examination in Law and Practice Relating to CSE
Expertise
- Child Law
- Crime
- Criminology
- Serious organised crime investigation and overt and covert investigative techniques
- Terrorism
Research interests
- Serious and organised crime and urban street gang theory
- Police culture and practice
- Crime Reduction
- Environmental Criminology
- Safeguarding and child welfare from a legal standpoint
- Violent and sexual offending
- Child Law
- Crime
- Criminology
- Serious organised crime investigation using overt and covert intelligence and investigative techniques
- Terrorism
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Level 4 Policing and Criminology
- Level 5/6 urban criminological concepts – criminology and crime.
- Research supervision
Postgraduate