Dr Brian Chappell
Reader in Police Practice

Summary

Dr Brian Chappell is currently the Co - Director of Studies Deputy for Criminal Justice Studies with responsibility for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship Programme (PCDA) and Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP) at Brunel, University of London (BUL). In addition, he also has responsibility for the post graduate degree MSc in Crime Science, Investigation and Intelligence at BUL.

Brian completed a thirty-year career with the Metropolitan Police Service in 2011, having undertaken a number of uniform and investigative roles. He served as a substantive detective at all ranks up to Detective Chief Inspector where he was an operational head and member of the Senior Management Team within the Specialist Crime Directorate at New Scotland Yard.

He has national and international operational and leadership experience of all aspects of proactive investigation, intelligence development, as well as having had management responsibility for related specialist training to UK police services, overseas law enforcement and external agencies. Brian also has national and international strategic leadership and management experience in the development of best practice, human rights and ethical compliance in the criminal justice sector, and has also led capability building projects for a number of international law enforcement agencies on behalf of the HM Government (FCO) and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

Prior to joining the teaching team at BUL, Brian was an independent criminal justice and executive leadership consultant in the commercial sector, and has worked in the higher education sector for 15 years.  Prior to joining BUL, he was a senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth where he held a number of teaching and course leadership roles at both undergraduate (BSc) and post graduate (MSc) in criminology, policing; criminal investigation and intelligence studies. He also taught on the Professional Doctorate in Criminal Justice programme and has been responsible for research supervision up to doctoral level.

His research interests include criminal investigation; intelligence; organised crime; wildlife crime, ethics, leadership and management in intelligence and investigations. He has a Doctorate in Criminal Justice (DCrimJ)(2015) that was the first exploratory study into the use of juvenile covert human intelligence sources (CHIS) in England. He also holds a Post Graduate Certificate of Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (2013) from the University of Portsmouth, a Master of Arts (MA) (with distinction) in Intelligence and Security Studies from Brunel University (2008) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy( FHEA).

Additionally, he has also held External Examiner roles at the School of Policing & Justice Studies at Liverpool John Moore’s University and at the Garda College, University of Limerick in Ireland. He was awarded MBE from Her Majesty the Queen in 2009 for services to policing.