About Us
The Advisory Committee
An international Advisory Committee comprising leading researchers and senior members of the policing and policy communities
from the UK and Europe has been appointed to advise on the strategic direction of SIPR with respect to its key aims of
conducting relevant research, making evidence-based contributions to policing policy and practice, and capacity building.
The Advisory Committee will also help identify opportunities for SIPR to engage in research and knowledge transfer activity in
partnership with others at both national and international levels.
Profiles of the members of the Advisory Committee are presented below.
CHAIR: Peter Wilson (Former Chief Constable, Fife Constabulary)
Professor Peter Wilson was Chief Constable of Fife Constabulary from April 2001 until his retirement in May 2008,
having served previously in Lothian and Borders Police and Grampian Police. As one of the driving forces behind
the SIPR, he cites his work towards the Diploma in Applied Criminology at Cambridge in 1996 as being the catalyst
for his determination to see a proper resource for evidence based policing practice in Scotland. He is an Honourary
Professor at the University of Dundee.
Professor Monica den Boer (Police Academy, the Netherlands)
Monica den Boer (NL) is Academic Dean at the Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn. She is Professor in Comparative Public Administration, in particular on the internationalisation of the police function (a Police Academy Chair which is based at the VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. She teaches several Masters courses and has published widely on Justice and Home Affairs cooperation in the EU, cross-border policing, organised crime, counter-terrorism, the Schengen Agreements, and good governance in the security arena.
She is a member of several editorial boards and the Committee on European Integration of the Advisory Council on International Affairs, and is deputy Chair of the Board of the Clingendael Institute of International Relations.
Professor Tore Bjorgo (Norwegian Police University College)
Tore Bjorgo is Professor and Research Director at the Norwegian Police University College, and also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He heads a research group on terrorism and international crime, and has published widely on racist and right-wing violence, youth gangs, terrorism, and crime prevention related to these problem areas. Another main research interest is disengagement from terrorist and other extremist groups.
Professor Thomas Feltes (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Thomas F. Feltes (1951) is University Professor in Criminology, Criminal Police and Police Science at the Law Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He teaches law students (capacity of the law faculty: 3,500 students) and since 2005 has had responsibility for a blended learning advanced Masters Program in Criminology and Police Science with 70 students each year. Since 2007 he has been corporate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. From 1992 until 2002 he served as the Head (Rector) of the University of Applied Police Science in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, with 1,300 police students and a faculty of 54 full-time professors. (www.thomasfeltes.de).
He is a member of the Board of the Police Futurists International (see http://www.policefuturists.org/board_comm.htm)
Professor John Graham (Police Foundation, UK)
John Graham is Director of The Police Foundation, and is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Crime and Social Change, University of Bedfordshire. John's previous posts include Associate Director of the Audit Commission and Deputy Director of Strategic Policy in the Home Office. He spent two years at the Social Exclusion Unit in the Cabinet Office and has been a Scientific Adviser to the Council of Europe since 1996. He serves on a number of Boards as a Non-Executive Director, including the Camelot Foundation and the Canadian Research Institute on Law and the Family.
Professor Martin Innes (Cardiff University)
Martin Innes was appointed Professor and Director, Universities Police Science Institute, at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences in March 2007. Prior to that he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology, at the University of Surrey for 2 years, and from 2003 to 2005 was Head of Research, National Reassurance Policing Programme. His research interests are organised around four themes: The Signal Crimes Perspective and Signal Events Theory; Reassurance and Neighbourhood Policing; Crime investigation and detection; Logics and practices of contemporary social control.
Professor Tim Newburn (London School of Economics)
Tim Newburn, is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics. He is the author or editor of over 30 books, the most recent of which include the Handbook of Criminal Investigation (Willan, 2007); Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice (Open University Press, 2007) and Criminology (Willan Publishing, 2007). His expertise includes: Crime and criminal justice policy; the sociology and governance of policing and security; disadvantaged and disaffected young people; youth crime and youth justice; drugs and alcohol; criminal justice policy-making and policy transfer; hate crime; and evaluation research.
Dr Nick Bland (Scottish Government)
Nick Bland is the Head of the Strategy and Delivery Unit, Police Division, within the Scottish Government.
Professor Nick Tilley (Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science)
Nick Tilley is Professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at UCL. He has carried out considerable work in the UK, often commissioned by the Home Office, to develop problem-oriented policing (POP). The Home Office set up the 'Tilley Award' in 1999 to encourage and recognise excellence in crime reduction using problem oriented-principles. The Tilley Awards promotes best practice in tackling crime and anti-social behaviour by recognising initiatives that reduce crime over the long term, not just by making arrests, but by working with local agencies to tackle the root causes of the problems.
Rachel Tuffin (National Policing Improvement Agency, UK)
Rachel Tuffin is the Research Programme Manager for the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). The NPIA is a new agency that aims to support policing to improve and deliver better services to the public. Prior to joining the agency, Rachel oversaw policing research in the Home Office, where she had worked for nine years carrying out and publishing research on a wide range of issues including neighbourhood policing, racist incidents and police leadership. She has been a member of two government police reform projects and recently advised Sir Ronnie Flanagan's Review of Policing. Before joining the Home Office, she was a research fellow at the University of East London.