Peter Neyroud

Dr Peter Neyroud is a Associate Professor in Evidence-based Policing. He was the Director of the M.St. Police Executive Programme. He has been at the Institute since 2010, following a 30-year career in the police service. He has been a Resident Scholar at the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology managing a major research programme, Operation Turning Point; a randomised controlled trial testing offender desistance policing. He has taught senior police leaders and advised governments across the world and in the UK on criminal justice reform. His research interests centre on field experiments in policing, pre-court diversion, crime harm and the implementation and leadership of change in criminal justice agencies. He was the Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group for 10 years and is a Co-PI for the Campbell 5RD programme of systematic reviews on the prevention of terrorism and radicalisation. 

Peter served for 30 years as a police officer in Hampshire, West Mercia and as Chief Constable of Thames Valley. He set up and ran the National Policing Improvement Agency as CEO. In 2010, he carried out the "Review of Police Leadership and Training" which led to the establishment of the new "National College of Policing", in 2012. He has been an independent reviewer of the Parole Board, a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council and on both the National Policing and National Criminal Justice Boards.

He was awarded the Queens Police Medal in 2004 and a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2011. In 2023 he was awarded the Campbell Collaboration Robert Boruch Award for public policy impact.