Matt Sessions

Matt Sessions joined the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing in January 2025, after more than eight years with Surrey and Warwickshire Police forces. He spent much of this time embedding Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) as a Problem Solving Tactical Advisor and Problem Solving Team Manager. This included co-leading Operation Blink, Surrey Police’s Tilley Award (UK Problem Solving Awards) winning POP Plan, which was also a Goldstein Award (International POP Awards) finalist. He has been a Tilley Award sift judge since 2023.

Matt has extensive experience delivering training, lectures, and conference speeches. He has also directed consultancy projects for the UK Home Office, the College of Policing, and police forces across England and Wales. His responsibilities at the Centre principally involve supporting agencies to improve their Problem-Oriented Policing activity, assisting in implementing and enhancing wider crime prevention programmes, and delivering crime prevention-related training.

Matt holds a Master of Science in Forensic Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, both from the University of Kent.