Chair
Dr. Heather Strang
Dr. Strang is the Chair of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. She is also the Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology. In 2019 she was elected as President of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Read more
Core Team
Simon Rose
Simon joined the team as Director of Studies in Police Intelligence Analytics in February 2022 when he retired from the Metropolitan Police Service after just over 30 years of service leaving as a Detective Chief Superintendent. His last role was as the OCU Commander for Met Intelligence leading a team of 1,450 officers and staff based in London, the Southeast UK and abroad. Simon has an extensive background in intelligence having served as a Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) and Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) in internal anti-corruption, a Borough Intelligence Manager as a Detective Inspector (DI) and a desk officer as a Detective Sergeant (DS) in Special Branch. Read More
Dr. Eleanor Neyroud
Eleanor Neyroud obtained her PhD at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. The focus of her PhD was the overlap between victimisation and offending in low level offenders. As well as working with the Centre for Evidence Based Policing and on the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, Eleanor is currently working as a data analyst Read more
Dr Sara Valdebenito Munoz
Sara was awarded her PhD at the Institute of Criminology University of Cambridge in 2018. Her doctoral thesis focused on the evaluation of an intervention aimed at reducing school exclusions by utilising a randomised controlled trial design. Sara has been working with the Violence Research Centre at the University of Cambridge since 2017 and was was appointed as Assistant Professor in Applied Criminology and Police Management in January 2023
Vicki McLellan
Vicki McLellan joined CCEBP as Trial Manager in September 2021. Vicki has a Bachelor of Science degree in Forensic Science and has extensive experience in the trial and data management of complex research projects through her former role at the Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit as a Senior Trial Manager.
Sumit Kumar
Sumit Kumar is a Project Manager at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. He is completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Matthew Bland
Dr. Bland is a Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and a former Head of Strategic Analysis and Principal Intelligence Analyst for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies. Read more
Fellows
DR. PETER NEYROUD, CBE QPM CCMI
Dr. Neyroud is an Associate Professor in Evidence-Based Policing and the Director of the M.St. Degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Police Executive Programme) at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Richard Vickery
Richard recently retired from Kent Police following 30 years of service. He is an Associate Lecturer for the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF). His last posting was as the Police Lead of the Force’s Innovation Task Force. The team successfully managed and implemented a number of evidence-based policing projects in collaboration with CCEBP, including E-Bit and R-TREC, both closely aligned to the Cambridge Allocation Model (CAM). Read More
Jayne D Sykes, MSt (Cantab), BA (Hons)
Jayne Sykes offers three decades of experience in the West Yorkshire Police and, most recently, as T/Chief Executive of the WYP Office of Police and Crime Commissioner. A graduate of both the Strategic Command… Read more
Kent McFadzien
Kent McFadzien is the Research Manager at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. He is completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Vincent Harinam
Dr Vincent Harinam was the Director of Studies in Crime Data Science at the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. He completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and taught the ‘Targeting Crime in Place and Time; advanved geospactial mapping’ course. Dr Harinam now works in The United States.
Crispian Strachan CBE QPM
Crispian began his policing career as a constable in London, served as a chief officer in Glasgow, and then as Chief Constable of Northumbria for seven years. Since 2010, he has served the Cambridge University Police Executive Programme as a supervisor of studies by mid-career police leaders. His work with evidence-based policing dates to 2001, when he joined a partnership of English agencies testing restorative justice conferences in multiple randomised controlled trials.
Dr. BARAK ARIEL
Dr. Ariel is a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Reader in Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
DR. GEOFFREY BARNES
Dr. Barnes is an Affiliated Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and the Western Australia Police Director of Criminology.
PROFESSOR MARCUS BEALE
Marcus Beale has had 30 years of UK policing
experience, the last 10 years as an Assistant Chief Constable with the highly rated West Midlands Police and Staffordshire Police. He has extensive experience in counter terrorism
(CT), both operationally as a CT commander and Read More
LORD IAN BLAIR, QPM
Lord Blair is a former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service and served as Co-Director of the Mid-Career Training Programme (Phase IV).
SUZETTE DAVENPORT, QPM
Ms. Davenport is a Supervisor in the M.St. Degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Police Executive Programme) at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
DETECTIVE SERGEANT NATALIE HILTZ
Detective Sergeant Hiltz works with the Peel Regional Police Service in Ontario, Canada, and is completing the M.St. Degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Police Executive Programme) at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Read More
CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT DAVID LAWES
Chief Superintendent Lawes works with the City of London Police, having responsibility for International Training and Development. He is a temporary Commander on secondment to the International Capabilities Team at the UK Home Office.
SAMANTHA MILLAR, QGM
Sam started her policing career in West Yorkshire Police having now transferred to North Yorkshire Police as Superintendent. During a time in the army as a young officer, Sam became an accomplished adventurer, was the first female officer to undertake arctic warfare survival, became a ski instructor and learned how to build igloos! Read More
Bruce O’Brien
Assistant Commissioner O’Brien joined New Zealand Police in 1999 and has worked most of his career in operational and investigation roles. Read More
SIR DENIS O’CONNOR, CBE QPM
Sir Denis O’Connor is the 2012 Radzinowicz Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
JOHN D. PARKINSON, OBE
John D. Parkinson is a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield and a Senior Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. From 2013 through 2019, he was a supervisor in the Master’s degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Cambridge Police Executive Programme) at the University of Cambridge. A career police officer who retired in 2013 as Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police Read More
Dr Jacqueline Sebire
ACC Jacqueline Sebire joined Bedfordshire Police in February 2016 prior to this appointment the majority
of her service was as a detective in homicide and serious crime investigations in the Metropolitan Police. Read More
CHRISTOPHER SIMS, OBE QPM
Mr. Sims is a Supervisor in the M.St. Degree in Applied Criminology and Police Management (Police Executive Programme) at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
DR. JUSTICE TANKEBE
Dr. Tankebe is a University Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Ph.D. Programme at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS
Mr. Williams is the former Commissioner of Police (Acting) of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. He is a part-time Lecturer at the Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of West Indies.