Dr Peter Neyroud CBE QPM is the Director of the Police Executive Programme and an Associate Professor in Evidence-Based Policing.  He is a former Chief Constable of one of the largest UK forces, Thames Valley (2002-7) and founding Chief Constable of the National Policing Improvement Agency (2007-2011), which he recommended in an Independent Report commissioned by the Home Secretary be converted into the current College of Policing.  From 2011-2014 he was the Director of the Birmingham Turning Point Project, a randomised controlled trial testing the effect of deferred prosecutions on 400 first offenders randomly assigned to be offered immediate rehabilitation programs within hours of arrest, or to standard prosecution.  He completed his PhD at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology in 2017. He is the Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Coordinating Group on Crime and Justice; editor of Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice; and a Fellow of Wolfson College.

Dr Sara Valdebenito is an Assistant Professor in Applied Criminology & Police Management at the Institute of Criminology, and Director of Studies for the Police Executive Programme. Her current research focuses on risk assessment algorithms and their implementation within operational settings. During the last three years she has been teaching quantitative methods at the Institute of Criminology and the Social Sciences Research Programme at Cambridge.

Dr Matthew Bland is an Associate Professor in Applied Criminology. He is a Fellow of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology and Elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology as well a Visiting Senior Fellow in Police Studies at the University of Suffolk. He has published books on crime analysis, experimental research designs and domestic abuse and is actively engaged in a variety of research projects. He is the Trial Director for the Ministry of Justice’s domestic abuse polygraph pilot and was appointed by the Policing Minister to be the Independent Chairperson for the Technical Reference Group responsible for revising the police funding allocation formula. Until 2018 he was Head of Strategic Analysis for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, and worked as a police staff member for 15 years. Dr Bland gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology and is a former graduate of the Police Executive Programme. Forecasting, domestic abuse and analysis of police recorded crime are among his research interests.

Suzette Davenport MBE QPM served for over 31 years in policing in five different forces. Her service started with West Mercia Police and she retired as the Chief Constable of Gloucestershire in 2017. In addition to her force roles Suzette was the police lead for Roads Policing during which time she established transparent and accountable governance arrangements for the National Driver Re-offending Scheme. She remained chair of the wholly owned stranding subsidiary, UKROEd as a non-executive director until May 2022, qualifying as a Chartered Director in 2017. She is a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Evidenced-Based Policing and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Gloucestershire. She holds an MBA.

Sir Denis O’Connor CBE QPM is a lecturer and advisor at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University and College Research Associate at Wolfson College.  He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of the College of Policing.  He was Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary between 2009-12.  Prior to joining the Inspectorate in 2004, he was Chief Constable of Surrey between 2000 and 2004 where he led the piloting of the National Reassurance Policing Programme, the pre-cursor to Neighborhood Policing. At the Inspectorate his team provided support to the Olympics Programme in testing the Olympic assurance process.  He introduced Value for Money profiles for all police forces in England and Wales in 2008/9 to assist comparisons to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness during austerity. This was followed by a series of studies to track police availability (2010) and the preparedness of police forces and authorities for the austerity spending period (2011, 2012); police relationships with the media and other parties (2011). He also contributed to the Scarman Inquiry (1981, the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (1999), and the Leveson Inquiry (2012).  He received the Queens Police Medal for distinguished service in 1996, CBE in 2002, and knighted in 2010.  Sir Denis has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Southampton University and an MSc in Social Policy from the Cranfield Institute of Technology.   In 2011 he was awarded a place in George Mason University’s ‘Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame’.  He received an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from Wolverhampton University in 2012.

Professor John Parkinson OBE is a Professor of International Security and a criminologist supporting international security and policing development programmes worldwide. He is a former UK Chief Constable with 35 years of specialist experience in counter terrorism, major and serious organised crime, along with strategic leadership and organisational development. He holds several Chair and Associate positions supporting innovation in international development at several universities providing strategic and contextual insight to contemporary policing and security issues including Chair of the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC). He supports the development of research programmes in Security, Counter Terrorism, Forensics, Modern Slavery and Cyber Crime as Chair of the Secure Societies Institute. He was a Director and Trustee of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) for six years and continues as a strategic advisor to their efforts to remove child sexual abuse content online. John is a Visiting Scholar lecturing and supervising post graduate studies at Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University and was formerly an Associate Tutor for Executive MBA Programme at the University of Bradford Business School. He has lectured extensively across the world supporting the development of police, crime investigation and security issues. Including recent presentations in the USA, Australia, Canada, Scandinavia, Middle and Far East, and at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad.

Olivia Pinkney CBE QPM was Chief Constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary for seven years, where she was CEO of a monopoly, risk-based, highly accountable public service, which is always in the public eye, serving 2 million residents, balancing fighting crime with safeguarding the public, and leading 5000 people. Her role has also been to build and optimise meaningful partnerships across the public, private and academic sectors. She is trusted within those partnerships to deliver results and be a team player, delivering what works to reduce crime and vulnerability at every level. Having joined policing as a constable straight from Cambridge University, Olivia has worked in many fields of overt and covert policing. As one of the most senior officers in the UK, she has led across UK policing for all Local Policing matters of policy and practice, comprising the policing which people see & feel, and which is the gateway to all specialist operational services. She has led UK policing for children & young people, including youth justice, Police Chaplaincy, and been a member of Sentencing Council. Olivia has Chaired the statutory multi-agency Local Resilience Forum for major incident preparedness and response for over a decade. Olivia has a reputation for integrity and excellence: she is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Police Foundation and Chairs their committee for the annual Cumberland Lodge Conference. She is an Associate Chief Officer with the UK College of Policing and was proud to direct the flagship executive leadership programme across UK policing in 2022. Olivia is an alumnus of FutureVision public sector executive leadership 2021 and contributes to Windsor Leadership programmes. She was awarded QPM in 2016 and CBE in 2023. Olivia chose to leave policing after 31 years in 2023.

Dr Jacqueline Sebire is a former Assistant Chief Constable for Joint Protective Services for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. She oversaw specialist operations, major crime and forensic services across the three counties. The majority of her service was as a detective in homicide and serious crime investigations in the Metropolitan Police. She was the senior investigating officer for a number for a number of high profile cases including the ‘Spy in the Bag’ case and the conviction of Britain’s youngest hit man. Jacqueline has a PhD in Forensic Psychology and has been a supervisor on the MSt in Applied Criminology & Police Management course at the Institute of Criminology since 2016. She has published a number of articles in relation to domestic abuse and risk management and lectured nationally and internationally on her research. Now retired from the police force, she is currently Assistant Professor in Policing and Security at Rabdan Academy, United Arab Emirates.

David Shaw QPM was a police officer for 36 years starting in West Midlands Police.  He served in a wide variety of roles culminating in the rank of Assistant Chief Constable responsible for Crime and Counter Terrorism.  In 2008 he transferred to West Mercia Police as Deputy Chief Constable and concluded his police service after 5 years as Chief Constable.  David held two national policing roles: Conflict Management which included public order, police use of firearms, non-lethal weapons, mounted, dogs and police use of force and was the lead for Fingerprints and Forensic Databases.  He now acts as a consultant to the Home Office supporting police technology programmes and innovation and is an Associate of CityForum which specialises in public policy and in particular policing, justice and security.  These roles enables him to remain very current and complement his role as a Cambridge MSt supervisor.

Debbie Simpson QPM began her career in Bedfordshire Police in 1984 where she remained for the next 24 years working predominantly within the detective arena.  She transferred to Devon and Cornwall as Assistant Chief Constable for Crime and Operations before transferring to Dorset.  In 2012 she became Chief Constable until retiring in 2018.  Within Dorset, she led an ambitious collaboration programme alongside local and regional approaches to austerity, whilst building capability within the region as the Chief Constable lead for serious and organised crime.  Debbie worked to transform how forensic services were provided across law enforcement; she also led the UK approach to Disaster Victim Identification for ten years and was responsible for overseeing many international deployments.  Debbie was a Co-Director for SPNAC, fast-track and direct entry and was also the Director for the Strategic Command Course for her final two years of service.  She holds an MBA and is an alumna of Wolfson College having attended the Wolfson Course in 1999.

Chris Sims OBE QPM began his career in the Metropolitan Police in 1980 and was Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police before retiring as Chief Constable of West Midlands Police in 2016. He led work in the fields of forensic science, counter terrorism and the national response to austerity. At the West Midlands Police, he constructed a transformation programme to reset policing delivery and introduce new technology that involved a unique relationship with the private sector. He is currently Policing Advisor to the Home Office Biometrics Programme with a particular interest in Facial Recognition. In 2013 he was awarded the Peel Medal for his contribution to evidence-based policing. He is a graduate of St Peters College Oxford and holds an MBA from Warwickshire University.

Jayne Sykes has three decades of experience with West Yorkshire Police (WYP); most recently as Temporary Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (WYOPCC). She is a graduate of both the Strategic Command Course for chief officers and the University of Cambridge Police Executive Programme. Her experience includes Head of Performance and Intelligence Analysis for WYP and establishment of the Violence Reduction Unit at the WYOPCC. Her research interests include the design and implementation of a randomised trial in police body-worn video. Her current consulting portfolio includes the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-based Policing (Tutor) and Home Office (programme management and governance).